Primary Job Title Professor of Business Primary Organization 
Columbia Business School
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Geert is the Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Before joining Columbia, Geert was a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from
Northwestern University’s Economics Department. His thesis won the 1994 Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics.
Geert Bekaert has published over 40 articles in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and other academic journals. He is Co-editor for the Review of Financial Studies.Geert has also been involved in several projects on emerging equity markets, and works on investment and asset allocation problems. Geert ‘s research has been supported by three NSF grants so far. In addition, Geert has served as a consultant to some of the world’s leading asset management firms.
Geert has taught classes on International Financial Markets, Global Fixed Income, Global Asset Allocation, Empirical Asset Pricing (for PhDs), Capital Markets and Investments and Investment and Wealth Management. With Bob Hodrick, he is the author of a textbook on International Financial Management.Whew! See what we mean about the high benchmark?
