Itay Goldstein
Itay Goldstein is the Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance, and Professor of Economics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as the Chairperson of the Finance Department.
His research interests include corporate finance, feedback effects between financial markets and real economy, financial fragility and crises, financial institutions, and financial markets.
Professor Goldstein has held numerous academic advisory and consulting positions at major central banks and financial institutions worldwide. He currently serves as Academic Advisor to the Bank of Canada and as Academic Consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
He is the Co-founder and Inaugural President of the Finance Theory Group, and serves as Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies. He has previously served as Editor at Management Science and the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
Professor Goldstein's work has been featured in leading publications including the Economist, Financial Times, National Public Radio, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters, TheStreet.com, and Morningstar.
- Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, The Wharton School (Present).
- Chairperson, Finance Department, The Wharton School (Present).
- Academic Advisor, Bank of Canada (2015 - Present).
- Academic Consultant, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2011 - Present).
- Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2005 - Present).
- Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (2013).
- Academic Consultant, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation (2010 - 2012).
- Visiting Scholar, Princeton University (2000 - 2001).
- Economist, Bank of Israel (1998 - 2000).
- Co-founder and Inaugural President of the Finance Theory Group.
- Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies.
- Previously Editor at Management Science and the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
- Co-organizer of Wharton Conferences on Liquidity and Financial Crises.
- Director of the American Finance Association.
- Director of the Western Finance Association.
- Previously Director of the Financial Intermediation Research Society.
- Elected Member of FARFE (Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics).
- Member of FARFE Prize Committee (2010).
- Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 2001
- M.A., Tel-Aviv University, 1998
- B.A., Tel-Aviv University, 1994
- The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Finance Theory Group (Co-founder)
- American Finance Association
- Western Finance Association
- FARFE
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