Assistant Professor of Finance
Elisabeth Kempf’s primary research interest is in empirical corporate finance. Her research has explored issues related to corporate governance and sources of skill for financial analysts and fund managers. Her most recent work explores how political partisanship influences the decisions by credit rating analysts.
Kempf’s research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies and is forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics. Her dissertation was awarded the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award at Copenhagen Business School, the Western Finance Association Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, the American Finance Association’s Young Scholars Finance Consortium Best Paper PhD Award, and the European Finance Association Best Doctoral Tutorial Paper Prize.
Global Economics & Business