Randall Morck

Randall Morck holds the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance and a Distinguished University Professorship at the University of Alberta’s Alberta School of Business. He earned an honors B.Sc. summa cum laude in applied mathematics and economics at Yale and a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard. He returns periodically to both almae matres – most recently as William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor at Harvard in 2005 and as Schoen Visiting Professor of Finance at Yale in 2009.

Prof. Morck is a Senior Fellow and Vice President of the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economics Research, Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Associate with the European Corporate Governance Institute, Senior Research Associate in Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, and Inaugural Fellow with the International Corporate Governance Society. He served as Research Fellow at the Bank of Canada from 2012 to 2017, Monetary Authority of Singapore Visiting Research Professor in 2012, and James Riady Visiting Chair in Finance at the National University of Singapore from 2010 to 2018, and is currently on the Academic Advisory Council of the Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organisations (CGIO) at NUS Business School. In 2018, he was made a Yangtze River Scholar, China’s highest academic honor. Google Scholar records almost 37,000 citations to his over 100 research articles and the Social Sciences Research Network ranks him in the 1% most highly cited of 8,000 economics authors worldwide. His articles appear in leading research journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics, in which two won “citations all-star award”.

In recent years he has spoken at Brown, Cambridge, Colombia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, HEC, LSE, MIT, NYU, Princeton, Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, Yale, and other leading research universities. He is a frequent speaker at conferences in North America and abroad and has advised a number of governments as well as the IMF and World Bank.

Research

• Business History
• Political Economy
• Corporate Finance

Teaching

Undergraduate Level

• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Investments
• Introductory Corporate Finance
• International Finance

MBA

• Introductory Corporate Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions / Corporate Governance
• Public Sector Financial Management

Executive Level

• Introductory Corporate Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions / Corporate Governance

PhD Level

• Research Topics in Corporate Finance