Faculty Directors

The following members of the GSB faculty serve on the Executive Board of the initiative on Global Markets.

The composition of the executive board reflects that a comprehensive approach to these issues must combine research done by accountants, micro, macro and financial economists.

Executive Director

Brian Barry, clinical associate professor of economics, recently joined the GSB faculty from The Economist. He is lead author of the IGM reports. His research interests include popular attitudes towards big business, wealth creation, and international trade and investment; and whether those attitudes foster policies that make it easier or harder for countries to thrive in a modern global economy. He is also creating a new MBA course on Asia—which he will teach in the Spring of 2008—to help future managers and investors make sense of economic trends and political risks in the region.

Co-Directors and Members of Executive Board

Austan Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, currently works as a member of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee, a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a columnist for the New York Times. His research interests include the Internet, the new economy, government policy, and taxes. He was named a 2006-2007 Fulbright Fellow. He researched Internet taxation in the U.S. and European Union while spending part of the 2006-2007 academic year at the London School of Economics and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, also in London.

Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance, currently works as a consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as well as a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is currently researching books on “Chinese Bank Reform” and “The Predictably of Monetary Policy.” Kashyap is Co-Coordinator for the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group on the Japanese Economy and is a member of the Bellagio Group of academics and senior economic officials.

Executive Board (along with above)

Christian Leuz,Christian Leuz, Joseph Sondheimer Professor, is also a Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Fellow at Wharton's Financial Institution Center and a Member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. His research examines the role of corporate disclosures, accounting transparency and disclosure regulation in capital markets, corporate governance and corporate financing. He has received several grants and honors, including a Journal of Financial Economics All Star Paper Awardand the Geewax Terker Prize. Professor Leuz is an associate editor for the Journal of Accounting and Economics and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, and the International Journal of Accounting.

Toby Moskowitz Tobias Moskowitz, Fama Family Professor of Finance and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, received the 2007 Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association and won the 2006 Brattle Prize for a distinguished paper published in the Journal of Finance entitled "Testing Agency Theory with Entrepreneur Effort and Wealth." He also won the 2004 and 2005 Barclays Global Investors Michael Brennan Award for his papers entitled, “Informal Financial Networks: Theory and Evidence” and "Confronting Information Asymmetries: Evidence from Real Estate Markets." Professor Moskowitz serves as a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and is a current editor of the Review of Financial Studies.

Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, has won the 2003 Bernacer Prize for the best European young financial economist, the 2002 Nasdaq award for best paper in capital formation, and a National Science Foundation grant in Economics. His research interests include on the theory of the firm, the relation between organization and financing, and the going-public decision. Zingales is currently a Faculty Research Fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow for the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He is the author of Saving Capitalism from Capitalists (with Raghuram G. Rajan).