Andrei Shleifer
Professor of
Economics at Harvard University, Andrei Shleifer holds an undergraduate degree
from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT. Before coming to Harvard in 1991, he has
taught at Princeton and the Chicago Business School. Shleifer has worked in the
areas of comparative corporate governance, law and finance, behavioral finance,
as well as institutional economics. He has published six books, including The
Grabbing Hand (with Robert Vishny), and Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to
Behavioral Finance, as well as over a hundred articles. Shleifer is an Editor
of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and a fellow of the Econometric Society,
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Finance
Association. In 1999, Shleifer won the John Bates Clark medal of the American
Economic Association. According to RePEc, Shleifer is the most cited
economist in the world.
Andrei Shleifer