Assistant Professor
Finance
About
Anastassia Fedyk is an Assistant Professor of finance at the Haas School of Business. Her research focuses on behavioral biases in individual and group decision-making, particularly concerning information and belief formation. She studies how information from a variety of sources, including financial news and individual employment records, influences asset prices. Fedyk holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University and a BA in Mathematics with honors from Princeton University. Prior to pursuing her academic career, she was a researcher and portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Behavioral Economics
- Empirical Asset Pricing
- Experimental Economics
- Labor and Finance
- Anastassia Fedyk. Research: How Investors’ Reading Habits Influence Stock Prices. Harvard Business Review.
September 2016 - Anastassia Fedyk. How to Tell If Machine Learning Can Solve Your Business Problem. Harvard Business Review.
November 2016
- Front Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial Markets
February 2019
Anastassia Fedyk
Best Paper Award, 2018 FMA Napa Conference on Financial Markets Research
Best Ph.D. Paper Award, 2017 European Finance Association
2017 WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research
Finalist, 2016 Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award - News-Driven Trading: Who Reads the News and When?
October 2018
Anastassia Fedyk
Previously circulated under the title of “Disagreement after News: Gradual Information Diffusion or Differences of Opinion?” - When Can the Market Identify Old News?
February 2019
Anastassia Fedyk (with James Hodson) - Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
September 2018
Anastassia Fedyk (with James Hodson)
Best Paper on Long-Term Investments, 2018 Northern Finance Association
Winner, 2017 Jack Treynor Prize from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance
Second Place, 2017 PanAgora Asset Management Dr. Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize - Asymmetric Naïveté: Beliefs about Self-Control.
September 2018
Anastassia Fedyk
Winner, Carlsberg Foundation Special Prize for Young Scholar at the 2018 NCBEE - Managerial Structure and Performance-Induced Trading
April 2017
Anastassia Fedyk, Saurin Patel, and Sergei Sarkissian
At Haas since 2018
2018 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas Finance Group
Northern Finance Association, Best Paper on Long-Term Investments
2018
Carlsberg Foundation Special Prize for Young Scholar
2018
FMA Napa Conference, Best Paper Award
2018
Jack Treynor Prize from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance
2017
European Finance Association, Best Ph.D. Paper Award
2017
PanAgora Asset Management Dr. Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize, 2nd place
2017
WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research
2017
Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award, Finalist
2016
- MBA Professors To Look Out For—2018, BusinessBecause, 10/15/2018
- Does Superior Reading Make Better Investors?, Barron’s, 09/06/2016
- Hedge Funds’ Information Advantage: Reading the News?, Chief Investment Officer, 08/29/2016
- Core Finance, EWMBA-203