Geert Bekaert | |
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Awards | William Sharpe Award (2012) |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Ghent Northwestern University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert J. Hodrick |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Economics |
Sub-discipline | International finance |
Institutions | Stanford Business School Columbia Business School |
Geert Bekaert is a Belgian economist. He is a professor at Columbia Business School and the managing editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. [1]
Bekaert received his B.A. from Ghent University and Ph.D. from Northwestern University under Robert J. Hodrick. [2] He began his academic career at the Stanford Graduate School of Business before joining the faculty of Columbia Business School in 1999. [3] He held the Leon G. Cooperman Professorship of Finance and Economics until 2019. Bekaert's research focused on international finance and foreign exchange market efficiency. [4]
Bekaert is the co-recipient of a William Sharpe Award in 2012 from the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis . [5] He has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1999. [6]
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