Alex Edmans

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Alex Edmans is professor of finance at London Business School[1] and the current Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College.[2] Since 2017 he has been the Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe.[3] He gave the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World, on confirmation bias and the importance of being discerning with evidence.

Education and early career[]

Edmans received a BA from Merton College, Oxford and a PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management as a Fulbright scholar.[4] After two stints at Morgan Stanley, his first academic position was at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was awarded tenure in 2013 and then moved to London Business School as a full professor of finance.

Research[]

Edmans' research is on corporate governance, executive pay, responsible business, and behavioral finance, and has been cited over 10,000 times.[5] His work covers topics such as the role of blockholders (large shareholders) in disciplining management,[6] the importance of long horizons in executive pay,[7][8] the link between employee satisfaction and long-term stock returns,[9][10] and the effect of sentiment on the stock market.[11][12] His most recent research is on the business case for responsible business, demonstrating that responsibility can create financial as well as social value.

Books[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Alex Edmans". London Business School. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Professor Alex Edmans". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Review of Finance". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Alex Edmans CV" (PDF). Alex Edmans. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Alex Edmans - Google Scholar". Google Scholar. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  6. ^ Edmans, Alex (2009). Blockholder trading, market efficiency, and managerial myopia. Journal of Finance 64, 2481-2513.
  7. ^ Edmans, Alex, Xavier Gabaix, Tomasz Sadzik, and Yuliy Sannikov (2012). Dynamic CEO compensation. Journal of Finance 67, 1603-1647.
  8. ^ Edmans, Alex, Vivian Fang, and Katharina Lewellen (2017). Equity vesting and investment. Review of Financial Studies 30, 2229-2271.
  9. ^ Edmans, Alex (2011). Does the stock market fully value intangibles? Employee satisfaction and equity prices. Journal of Financial Economics 101, 621-640.
  10. ^ Edmans, Alex (2012). The link between job satisfaction and firm value, with implications for corporate social responsibility. Academy of Management Perspectives 26, 1-19.
  11. ^ Edmans, Alex, Diego Garcia and Oyvind Norli (2007). Sports sentiment and stock returns. Journal of Finance 62, 1967-1998.
  12. ^ Edmans, Alex, Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Alexandre Garel and Ivan Indriawan (2021). Music sentiment and stock returns around the world. Journal of Financial Economics.


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