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Anat R Admati

George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics
Professor of Management Science and Engineering (by courtesy), School of Engineering
Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences
Graduate School of Business Trust Faculty Fellow for 2009-2010

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Anat Admati is primarily a financial economics theorist. Her research focuses on issues related to the dissemination of information in financial markets. She has written, in particular, on trading patterns in markets where some investors may have private information, and on markets where information is sold, e.g., through newsletters or active mutual funds. She also has studied portfolio performance measurement, venture capital contracting, and the desirability of setting disclosure standards for firms. Most recently, her research interests focus on corporate governance, and she has written particularly on the role of large shareholders.

Anat Admati is a financial economist who has written primarily on issues related to information in financial markets. Her research (most of which has been conducted jointly with Professor Paul Pfleiderer, a colleague at Stanford GSB) has explored a broad set of issues such as trading mechanisms and trading patterns, direct and indirect information markets, contracting issues in venture capital and in portfolio management contexts, performance measurement, the regulation of disclosure, and large shareholder activism. Her current research interests are related to corporate governance.

Professor Admati received her BS in mathematics and statistics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979, and her PhD from Yale University in 1983. She is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Batterymarch Fellowship, and multiple research grants, and she was recently elected fellow of the Econometric Society. Professor Admati has served as a board member of the American Finance Association and in a number of editorial positions. She is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Finance and an advisory editor of the Journal of Financial Markets. She is also a board member of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance of the Stanford Law School, and of Stanford Hillel.


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