#  Bio 

 



**JEREMY C. STEIN June 2011**

Jeremy C. Stein is the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard  
University, where he teaches courses in finance in the undergraduate and PhD programs.

Before coming to Harvard in 2000, Stein was on the finance faculty of M.I.T.’s  
Sloan School of Management for ten years, most recently as the J.C. Penney Professor of  
Management. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of finance at the Harvard  
Business School from 1987-1990. He received his AB in economics summa cum laude  
from Princeton University in 1983 and his PhD in economics from M.I.T. in 1986.

Stein’s research has covered such topics as: behavioral finance and stock-market  
efficiency; corporate investment and financing decisions; risk management; capital  
allocation inside firms; banking; financial regulation; and monetary policy. He is  
currently a co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, was previously a co-editor of  
the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and has served on the editorial boards of several  
other economics and finance journals. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts  
and Sciences, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a  
member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Financial Advisory Roundtable. In  
2008, he was president of the American Finance Association. From February-July of  
2009, he served in the Obama Administration, as a senior advisor to the Treasury  
Secretary and on the staff of the National Economic Council.



 

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