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Geert Bekaert Geert Bekaert is professor of finance at Columbia Business School and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Before joining Columbia, Bekaert was a tenured associate professor of finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Northwestern University's Department of Economics. During his studies, he was supported by a Sloan Dissertation Fellowship and an NBER Dissertation Support Award. His thesis won the 1994 Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics. Before entering graduate school, he worked in the research department of the Kredietbank in Belgium (1986-7). Bekaert has published in numerous journals. He is an associate editor for Emerging Markets Quarterly, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and an editor for the Journal of Empirical Finance. His research focus is international finance, with a particular interest in foreign exchange market efficiency, exchange rate determination and international equity markets. He is currently supported by an NSF grant to work on a study called "Time-varying Risk, Peso Problems and Asset Pricing." Bekaert has been involved in several projects on emerging equity markets, some of which were sponsored by the World Bank, the Catalyst Institute and the Davidson Institute. In addition, he is a financial economist with Financial Engines, a start-up company founded by Bill Sharpe, which provides state-of-the-art, quantitative investment advice to individual investors. | |||||||||||||||
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