Meir statman biography template

Meir Statman is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University. His research focuses on behavioral finance. He attempts to understand how investors and managers make financial decisions and how these decisions are reflected in financial markets.

His most recent book is “Behavioral Finance: The Second Generation,” published by the CFA Institute Research Foundation.

The questions he addresses in his research include: What are investors’ wants and how can we help investors balance them?

Meir statman biography template

What are investors’ cognitive and emotional shortcuts and how can we help them overcome cognitive and emotional errors? How are wants, shortcuts and errors reflected in choices of saving, spending, and portfolio construction?

How are they reflected in asset pricing and market efficiency?

Meir’s research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, t