René Stulz

Background

René M. Stulz is the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics and the Director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics at The Ohio State University. He has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded a Marvin Bower Fellowship from the Harvard Business School, a Doctorat Honoris Causa from the University of Neuchâtel, and the Risk Manager of the Year Award of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. In 2004, the magazine Treasury and Risk Management named him one of the 100 most influential people in finance. Reuters includes him in its list of the world’s most influential scientific minds. He is a past president of the American Finance Association and of the Western Finance Association, and a fellow of the American Finance Association, the European Corporate Governance Institute, the Financial Management Association, and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.

René M. Stulz was the editor of the Journal of Finance, the leading academic publication in the field of finance, for twelve years. He is on the editorial board of more than ten academic and practitioner journals. Further, he is a member of the Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance Programs and the director of the Risk of Financial Institutions Group of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

He has published more than one hundred papers in finance and economics journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Harvard Business Review. He is the author of a textbook titled Risk Management and Derivatives, a coauthor of the Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System, and has edited several books, including two volumes of the Handbook of the Economics of Finance.

René M. Stulz has taught in executive development programs in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He has consulted for major financial institutions as well as for nonfinancial firms, law firms, the New York Stock Exchange, the IMF, and the World Bank, and testified in federal and state courts as well as in arbitrations. He is a director of Banque Bonhote and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. At GARP, he also chairs the FRM committee that oversees the FRM certification examination.

More Information

Congressional Testimony (PDF) FRBNYGARP Agenda October 2011 (PDF) NBER Risk Group

Courses

BUSFIN 7290 Enterprise Risk Management I

Advanced theories of Corporate Risk Management, hedging strategies, and how to measure apply Value at Risk. Prereq: 7210, 7220, and 7230, or MBA 810 and BusFin 811, or 6221, or 6222. Not open to students with credit for 829.

BUSFIN 8290 Seminar: Finance Research Topics

Advanced PhD student presentations of research in Finance. Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 6 completions.