David Chambers

Reader in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education

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Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education

David Chambers

Reader in Finance
Academic Director of the Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM)

BA (University of Oxford), MSc (London Business School), MSc and PhD (London School of Economics)

Research interests

Empirical corporate finance, especially IPOs; asset management, particularly in relation to endowments and foundations; financial history; and law and finance.

Subject group: Finance

Professional experience

Prior to returning to full-time education in 2001, Dr Chambers worked for 20 years in investment banking at Barings, Hotchkis & Wiley and Merrill Lynch. He gained experience in asset management, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital in Europe, Japan and the United States. Dr Chambers is Academic Director of the Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, an Associate Director of the Centre for Financial History and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Previous appointments

Dr Chambers was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, from 2005 to 2008, and taught on the Masters in Financial Economics and the MBA programmes at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Awards & honours

  • Cambridge Judge Business School Teaching Award, 2017
  • Financial Analysts Journal Graham & Dodd Best Perspectives Award for the paper "The British Origins of the Endowment Model" (with Elroy Dimson), 2015
  • Keynes Fellowship, University of Cambridge, 2013
  • "The Norway Model" voted ''Outstanding Article'' by the readers of the Journal of Portfolio Management (with Elroy Dimson and Antti Ilmanen), 2013
  • Thomas K. McCraw Fellow, Harvard Business School, Fall 2012
  • Ashton Prize for the best article in the last two years by an early career researcher published in The Economic History Review (for "Gentlemanly capitalism revisited"), 2011
  • Coller Institute of Private Equity Research Award, 2007
  • Economic History Society New Researcher Prize, 2005

Selected publications

Here are a selection of David Chambers'' publications. Please see the "Selected publications" tab above for a more comprehensive list.

Chambers, D. and Kabiri, A. (2016) "Keynes and Wall Street." Business History Review, 90(4): 301-328 (DOI: 10.1017/S0007680516000362)

Accominotti, O. and Chambers, D. (2016) "If you''re so smart: John Maynard Keynes and currency speculation in the interwar years." Journal of Economic History , 76 (2): 342-386 (DOI: 10.1017/S0022050716000589)

Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Foo, J. (2015) "Keynes the stock market investor: a quantitative analysis." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 50(4): 843-868 (DOI: 10.1017/S0022109015000186) (available online via the SSRN)

Chambers D. and Dimson E. (2013) "Retrospectives: John Maynard Keynes, investment innovator." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 213-228 (available online via the SSRN)

Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Ilmanen, A. (2012) "The Norway model." Journal of Portfolio Management, 38(2): 67-81 (DOI: 10.3905/jpm.2012.38.2.067)

Chambers, D. and Dimson, E. (2009) "IPO underpricing over the very long-run." Journal of Finance, 64(3): 1407-1443 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01468.x)

Journal articles

Chambers, D. (2009) "Gentlemanly capitalism revisited: a case study of the underpricing of initial public offerings on the London Stock Exchange, 1946-86." Economic History Review, 62(1): 31-56

Chambers, D. and Dimson, E. (2009) "IPO underpricing over the very long-run." Journal of Finance, 64(3): 1407-1443 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01468.x)

Chambers, D. (2010) "Going public in interwar Britain." Financial History Review, 17(1): 51-71 (DOI: 10.1017/S0968565009990163)

Mitchell, B., Chambers, D. and Crafts, N. (2011) "How good was the profitability of British railways, 1870-1912?" Economic History Review, 64(3): 798-831 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00550.x)

Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Ilmanen, A. (2012) "The Norway model." Journal of Portfolio Management, 38(2): 67-81 (DOI: 10.3905/jpm.2012.38.2.067)

Cheffins, B.R, Koustas D.K. and Chambers, D. (2013) "Ownership dispersion and the London Stock Exchange''s ''two-thirds rule'': an empirical test." Business History, 55(4): 667-690 (DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2012.741969) (available online via the SSRN)

Burhop, C., Chambers, D. and Cheffins, B.R. (2014) "Regulating IPOs: evidence from going public in London, 1900-1913." Explorations in Economic History, 51: 60-76 (DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2013.07.003)

Chambers D. and Dimson E. (2013) "Retrospectives: John Maynard Keynes, investment innovator." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 213-228 (available online via the SSRN)

Chambers, D. and Esteves, R. (2014) "The first global emerging markets investor: Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust 1880-1913." Explorations in Economic History, 52: 1-21 (DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2013.08.004)

Chambers, D. and Dimson, E. (2015) "The British origins of the US endowment model." Financial Analysts Journal, 71(2): 10-14 (DOI: 10.2469/faj.v71.n2.7) (available online via the SSRN)

Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Foo, J. (2015) "Keynes the stock market investor: a quantitative analysis." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 50(4): 843-868 (DOI: 10.1017/S0022109015000186) (available online via the SSRN)

Accominotti, O. and Chambers, D. (2016) "If you''re so smart: John Maynard Keynes and currency speculation in the interwar years." Journal of Economic History , 76 (2): 342-386 (DOI: 10.1017/S0022050716000589)

Chambers, D. and Kabiri, A. (2016) "Keynes and Wall Street." Business History Review, 90(4): 301-328 (DOI: 10.1017/S0007680516000362)

Chambers, D., Schill, M. and Sarkissian, S. (2017) “Market and regional segmentation and risk premia in the first era of financial globalization." Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) (available online via the SSRN)

Book chapters

Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Foo, J. (2015) "Keynes, King''s and endowment asset management." In: Brown, J.R. and Hoxby, C.M. (eds.) How the financial crisis and great recession affected higher education: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp.127-150

Working papers

Chambers, D., Sarkissian, S. and Schill, M.J. (2012) "Market and regional segmentation and risk premia in the first era of financial globalization." Social Science Research Network Working Paper.

Accominotti, O. and Chambers, D. (2014) "Out-of-sample evidence on the returns to currency trading." Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Papers, No.DP9852. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research. (Also available online via the SSRN)

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