Efraim Benmelech is a financial economist.
Benmelech is the Henry Bullock Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the director of the Guthrie Center for real estate research and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). [1]
He is a winner of the 2011 Brattle Prize for his article "Bankruptcy and Collateral Channel". [1]
In 2013, Benmelech was associate editor of the Journal of Finance and editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies . [2]
Benmelech earned his BA and MBA from Hebrew University and his PhD in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. [1]
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"This year’s laureates in the Economic Sciences, Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, have significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises. An important finding in their research is why avoiding bank collapses is vital."
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