Jules van Binsbergen
professor, The Wharton School
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, the effects of monetary policy on asset prices, and the organization, skill and performance of financial intermediaries. 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 Ph.D from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. After obtaining his Ph.D 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. He is a former editor of the Review of Finance a former associate editor of the Journal of Financial Economics and a current associate editor of the Journal of Finance. He has won numerous awards for both his research and teaching and is a research associate of the NBER as well as a research fellow at the CEPR.