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 (February 2019). Front Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial Markets. Working paper
- Anastassia Fedyk and James Hodson (February 2019). When Can the Market Identify Old News?. Working paper
- Anastassia Fedyk (October 2018). News-Driven Trading: Who Reads the News and When?. Working paper
- Anastassia Fedyk and James Hodson (September 2018). Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance. Working paper
- Anastassia Fedyk (September 2018). Asymmetric Naïveté: Beliefs about Self-Control. Working paper
- Anastassia Fedyk (November 2016). How to Tell If Machine Learning Can Solve Your Business Problem. Harvard Business Review
- Anastassia Fedyk (September 2016). Research: How Investors’ Reading Habits Influence Stock Prices. Harvard Business Review
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