economic history, Labor Economics, law and economics
Price Fishback joined the Eller College of Management as associate professor in 1990 after teaching at the University of Georgia. He was appointed the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics in 2010. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Washington in 1983. His research area of interest is the political economy of Roosevelt鈥檚 New Deal during the 1930s, examining both the determinants of New Deal spending and loans and their impact on local economies throughout the U.S. He also works on state labor legislation during the Progressive Era, the American Economy during World War II and changes in agriculture in response to climate, government policy and technology. Fishback is also a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic History at Australian National University, a CAGE Fellow at Warwick University, a program scholar for the Hoover Program on Regulation and the Rule of Law, a fellow at the TIAA-CREF Institute and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Associate Professor, Co-Director of Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making
University of Colorado BoulderAsset Pricing, economic history, Household Finance
Asaf Bernstein is an associate professor of finance at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research. For 2021-2022 he will be serving as a Senior Advisor for Climate Issues for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Prior to joining Leeds he completed his PhD in Financial Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016. His interests generally lie at the intersection of policy and finance, with a focus on "Mostly Harmless Macroprudential Policy" (financial policies supported by plausibly well-identified reduced-form empirics), and include work in economic history, household finance, real estate, corporate finance, and asset pricing.
Professor Bernstein's research has looked at the effect of financial regulations and institutions, including the Federal Reserve, rating agencies, centralized clearing, and mortgage assistance programs. This work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and received numerous awards, including the 2019 AQR Insight Distinguished Paper Award. Based on his graduate work he received the 2016 AQR Top Finance Graduate Award by Copenhagen Business School, which recognizes the six most promising finance PhD graduates in the world. Prior to graduate school, he received his B.S. in Economics and Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and worked as a quantitative trader at an investment bank in New York.