Lauren Cohen
Lauren Cohen is an Assistant Professor in the Finance area at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Cohen was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Yale University, in the School of Management, where he was on faculty from 2005-2007.
Professor Cohen’s research focuses on empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and portfolio choice. He has investigated the effect of limited attention on price evolution and studied the information in shorting for future returns. His recent work examines the role of social networks in information transmission in equity markets. His research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, and the Review of Financial Studies. Professor Cohen received a Ph.D. in finance and an MBA from the University of Chicago in 2005, and a B.S.E. from Wharton and a B.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.
Nicholas Economides
Nicholas Economides is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics, electronic commerce, public policy, and financial markets microstructure. His fields of specialization and research include the economics of networks, especially of telecommunications, computers, and information, the economics of technical compatibility and standardization, industrial organization, the structure and organization of financial markets and payment systems, antitrust, application of public policy to network industries, strategic analysis of markets and law and economics.
Prof. Economides has published over 100 articles in top academic journals in the areas of networks, telecommunications, oligopoly, antitrust, product positioning, and on the liquidity and the organization of financial markets and exchanges. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics. He has previously taught at Columbia University (1981-1988) and at Stanford University (1988-1990). He is editor of the Information Economics and Policy, Netnomics, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, the Journal of Financial Transformation, Journal of Network Industries, on the Advisory Board of the Social Science Research Network, editor of Economics of Networks Abstracts by SSRN, and past editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. His web site on the Economics of Networks at has been ranked as one of the top four economics sites worldwide by The Economist magazine.
Prof. Economides is Executive Director of the NET Institute, http://www.NETinst.org, a world-wide focal point for research on the economics of network and high technology industries. He is advisor to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the governments of Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, and Portugal, the Attorney General of New York State, major telecommunications corporations, a number of the Federal Reserve Banks, the Bank of Greece, and major Financial Exchanges. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has commented extensively in broadcast and in print on high technology, antitrust, and public policy issues. A complete CV is available at http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/cvnoref.html.
Adam Reed
Adam Reed is an Associate Professor of Finance and a Julian Price Scholar at The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. He researches short selling, equity lending, capital markets and mutual funds. His research has been published in The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. The research has been cited in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He worked as a research assistant for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Reed came to UNC Kenan-Flagler from Wharton, where he developed an executive education course in corporate finance for executives from the Toyota Corporation. At UNC, he teaches the core finance class in the MBA Program. He received his PhD and masters degree in finance from the University of Pennsylvania and his BA in applied mathematics and economics from the University of California at Berkeley.