Elisabeth Kempf joined Chicago Booth in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Finance. Her research interests include corporate finance, financial intermediation, and labor in finance. Currently she is studying the incentive effects of revolving doors, the value of experience for mutual fund managers...
Elisabeth Kempf joined Chicago Booth in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Finance. Her research interests include corporate finance, financial intermediation, and labor in finance. Currently she is studying the incentive effects of revolving doors, the value of experience for mutual fund managers, and the role of investor attention for corporate actions. Her dissertation has been awarded the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award 2016, the WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, the Young Scholars Finance Consortium Best Ph.D. Paper Award, and the 2015 EFA Best Doctoral Tutorial Paper Prize.