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Benjamin Hermalin

Benjamin Hermalin

 

Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professorship in Finance
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
1-510-642-7575
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Academic Status: On duty 2006-2007
Office Hours: Sept. 2 to Oct. 14, Thurs. 9:30-10:30 (except 9/16)
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/hermalin
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/eap/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

AB, summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1984.
Ph.D., economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988.

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 1988
2006 - present Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professorship in Finance
2005 - present Chair, Department of Economics, College of L&S, UC Berkeley
1999 - 2006 Willis H. Booth Professor of Banking and Finance
1998 - present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1998 - present Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
2002 Interim Dean, Haas School of Business
1999 - 2002 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Haas School of Business
1998 - 1999 Professor of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management
1996 - 98 Harold Furst Associate Professor of Management Philosophy & Values, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1994 - 96 Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1988 - 94 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Corporate Governance
  • Executive Compensation
  • Economics of leadership and organization
  • Contract theory
  • Competitive strategy and industrial organization

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • “Your Network or Mine? The Economics of Routing Rules,” RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 37 (2006), pp. 692–719. (co-authored with Michael Katz).
  • “Leadership and Information,” American Economic Review, Vol. 97 (2007), pp. 944–947 . (co-authored with Mana Komai and Mark Stegeman).
  • "Moral Hazard and Verifiability: The Effects of Renegotiation in Agency," Econometrica, Vol. 59 (1991), pp. 1735-1753. (co-authored with Michael Katz)
  • "Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO." (co-authored with Michael S. Weisbach). American Economic Review. 88 (1998): 96-118.
  • "Toward an Economic Theory of Leadership: Leading by Example." American Economic Review. 88 (1998): 1188-1206.
  • "Firm Performance and Executive Compensation in the Savings and Loan Industry." (co-authored with Nancy E. Wallace). Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 61, pp. 139-170 (2001)
  • “Sender or Receiver: Who Should Pay to Exchange an Electronic Message?” RAND Journal of Economics, Autumn, 2004. (co-authored with Michael Katz).
  • “Trends in Corporate Governance,” Journal of Finance, Vol. 60(5) (2005), pp. 2351-2384.

 

Teaching

  • UGBA 10 (fall and spring)
  • Economics 206 (spring)

 

Honors and Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1984
  • NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1984-87
  • NSF Grants, 1991-93 & 1997-2000
  • Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award, 1991
  • John M. Olin Faculty Research Fellowship, Yale Law School, 1992-93
  • Schwabacher Award, 1993



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