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. Disagreement after News: Gradual Information Diffusion or Differences of Opinion?. Review of Asset Pricing Studies (forthcoming).
November 2020
Best Paper on Market Microstructure, 2019 Northern Finance Association
Also circulated under the title of “News-Driven Trading: Who Reads the News and When?” - Anastassia Fedyk. Can Machine Learning Solve Your Business Problem?. HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers.
(pp. 111-119)
Harvard Business Review Press, 2018 - Anastassia Fedyk. How to Tell If Machine Learning Can Solve Your Business Problem. Harvard Business Review.
November 2016 - Anastassia Fedyk. Research: How Investors’ Reading Habits Influence Stock Prices. Harvard Business Review.
September 2016
- Front Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial Markets
July 2020
Anastassia Fedyk
Revise and Resubmit (second round), Journal of Finance
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 - Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
December 2020. Revise and Resubmit, Review of Finance.
Anastassia Fedyk and 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 - When Can the Market Identify Old News?
November 2020
Anastassia Fedyk and James Hodson
Finalist, 2019 Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award - Artificial Intelligence, Firm Growth, and Industry Concentration
November 2020
Anastassia Fedyk, Tania Babina, Alex He, and James Hodson - Managerial Structure and Performance-Induced Trading
March 2020
Anastassia Fedyk, Saurin Patel, and Sergei Sarkissian - Asymmetric Naïveté: Beliefs about Self-Control.
September 2018
Anastassia Fedyk
Winner, Carlsberg Foundation Special Prize for Young Scholar at the 2018 NCBEE
At Haas since 2018
2018 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas Finance Group
Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award, Finalist
Paper: When Can the Market Identify Stale News?
2019
Northern Finance Association, Best Paper on Market Microstructure
Paper: Disagreement after News: Gradual Information Diffusion or Differences of Opinion?
2019
Carlsberg Foundation Special Prize for Young Scholar at the NCBEE, Winner
Paper: Asymmetric Naivete: Beliefs about Self-Control
2018
Northern Finance Association, Best Paper on Long-Term Investments
Paper: Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
2018
FMA Napa Conference, Best Paper Award
Paper: Front Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial Markets
2018
Jack Treynor Prize from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance
Paper: Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
2017
European Finance Association, Best Ph.D. Paper Award
Paper: Front Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial Markets
2017
PanAgora Asset Management Dr. Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize, 2nd place
Paper: Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
2017
WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research
2017
Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award, Finalist
Paper: Front Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial Markets
2016
World Finance Conference, Top 3 Best Paper Award
Paper: News Consumption: From Information to Returns
2016
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- Investing in AI boosts firm growth—and increases market dominance, study finds, Berkeley Haas News, 10/13/2020
- 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, MBA-203 & EWMBA-203