Jules van Binsbergen

Jules van Binsbergen conducts theoretical and empirical research in finance. His current work focuses on asset pricing, in particular the relationship between financial markets and the macro economy, and the organization, skill and performance of financial intermediaries. Some of his recent research focuses on the influence of financial market anomalies on real economic activity, measuring the skill of mutual fund managers and the term structure of cash flow growth and stock return predictability. Professor van Binsbergen’s research has appeared in leading academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He received his PhD from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. After obtaining his PhD in 2008, he joined the faculty at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he got tenure in 2014. He joined the Wharton School in 2014.

Awards and Honors

• DFA Distinguished Paper Prize in the Journal of Finance for Real Anomalies, 2019
• “Tough but we will thank you in five years” Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2018
• Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award Nominee for outstanding teaching, 2018
• Jacobs-Levy Equity Management Outstanding Paper Award, 2018
• Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award Nominee for outstanding teaching, 2017
• “Goes above and beyond” Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2017
• “Goes above and beyond” Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2016
• “Tough but we will thank you in five years” Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2016
• Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award Nominee for outstanding teaching, 2016
• Poets and Quants: Best 40 under 40 Business School Professors, 2015
• Marshall E. Blume Prize (Honorable Mention) for “Measuring Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry”, 2014
• Finalist AQR Insight Award for “Measuring Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry”, 2013
• Spence Faculty Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2013-2014
• Faculty impact award for excellence in teaching, Student Association Kellogg School of Management, 2012
• Chair’s award for excellence in teaching in the core, Kellogg School of Management, 2011
• Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award for “On the Timing and Pricing of Dividends”, 2010
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management Award (WFA) for “Predictive Regressions a Present-Value Approach”, 2008

Work experience

• The Wharton School
  • The Nippon Life Professor of Finance
  • Associate Professor of Finance
• Tilburg University Professor (Hoogleraar) of Financial Economics
• Stanford University
• Associate Professor of Finance
• Assistant Professor of Finance
• Goldman Sachs Analyst

Education

• Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business PhD Finance
• Tilburg University MA Financial Econometrics
• Bernardinuscollege