Ulrike Malmendier

Associate Professor

Fields: Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance

Research interests: Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Behavioral Economics, Economics of Organizations, Contract Theory, Law & Finance, Economics Of Institutions, Economics And Psychology

Ulrike Malmendier received her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University in 2002, and her PhD in Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Bonn in 2000. She joined Berkeley in 2006 as an Assistant Professor, after having been at Stanford as Assistant Professor of Finance since 2002. She also is a faculty research fellow at NBER (Corporate Finance and Labor Economics) and at IZA, a CESifo affiliate, and a CEPR research affiliate. Over the last five years, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Max-Planck Institute in Bonn, Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Recently, she was named Distinguished Speaker at the European Financial Management meeting in Milan, Italy, Keynote Speaker at the ERIM Invitational Conference "Frontiers in Research in Management" in Rotterdam (NL), and Distinguished Speaker at the Mergers and Acquisitions conference in Exeter (UK). She was a selected speaker at the Review of Economic Studies European Tour 2002. Her research has been honored with awards such as the Citation of Excellence by Emerald Management Reviews as one of the management articles of 2005 for "CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment" and Prize of the President of the Italian Republic for her book Societas publicanorum. She has received fellowships and grants from numerous institutions in the U.S. and Europe.

She currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Economic Journal. She has been on the program committee and organized numerous sessions at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association, American Finance Association, and Western Finance Association.