David Scharfstein
Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and BankingSenior Associate Dean, Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School
Biography
Harvard Business School
David Scharfstein is the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. Scharfstein has published on a broad range of topics in finance, including corporate investment and financing behavior, risk management, financial distress, capital allocation, and venture capital. His current research focuses on financial intermediation and financial regulation, including research on housing finance, financial system risk, bank lending and funding, and the growth of the financial sector. Scharfstein is currently a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. During 2017, he was president of the American Finance Association. In 2009-2010, he was a senior advisor to the U.S. Treasury Secretary. He previously was a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. From 1987-2003 he was a finance professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Scharfstein received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and an A.B. from Princeton University.
Videos
Pt 2 of Global Economics: Financial Turbulence and U.S. Powe
Fixing Finance: Reactions and Over-Reactions
Fifth ECB Annual Research Conference - Keynote lecture - 3rd September 2020
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