Elisabeth Kempf
Associate Professor of Finance at Booth School of Business
Biography
Booth School of Business
Elisabeth Kempf joined Chicago Booth in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Finance. Her primary research interest is in empirical corporate finance. Her research has explored issues related to corporate governance and sources of skill for financial analysts and fund managers. Her dissertation has been awarded the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award 2016, the WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, the Young Scholars Finance Consortium Best Ph.D. Paper Award, and the 2015 EFA Best Doctoral Tutorial Paper Prize. Her work has been published in the Review of Financial Studies.
Kempf holds a Ph.D. in finance from Tilburg University (Netherlands), an M.Sc. in finance from HEC Paris (France), and a B.Sc. in business administration from the University of Mannheim (Germany). Prior to her Ph.D. studies, she worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank.
Academic Areas
Finance
Videos
Study suggests that political views of analysts affect market calls
Elisabeth Kempf on the costs of meritless lawsuits
Ph.D Candidate Elisabeth Kempf: "Distracted Shareholders and Corporate Actions"
Alumni video - Elizabeth Kempf
Webinar | Elisabeth Kempf on 50 Shades of QE: Conflict of Interest in Economic Research | ASB-SEACEN
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