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Mitchell
A. Petersen
Glen Vasel Professor of Finance
Finance
AB 1986, Economics, Princeton University
PhD 1990, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Positions Held |
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Kellogg
School of Management, Northwestern University.
Professor of Finance, 2005 - present.
Associate Professor of Finance, 1997 - 2005.
Assistant Professor of Finance, 1994 - 1997.
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Research Associate, 2002 - present.
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.
Assistant Professor of Finance, 1990 - 1994.
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| Courses
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Corporate
Finance (Finance II)
Financial Strategy and Tax Planning
Real Options |
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| Career
and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards |
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Michael Brennan Award Best Paper Award, The Review
of Financial Studies, 1998.
Smith Breeden Outstanding Paper Prize, Journal
of Finance, 1995.
Kellogg Professor of the Year, 2000.
Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award, 1996, 1999, 2001 and
2003.
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| Professional
Leadership |
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Associate Editor: Journal of Finance,
2004-present
Academic Advisory Panel: Moody's Investors Services, 2003-present
Associate Editor: Financial Management, 2002-present
Editor: Journal of Financial Intermediation, 1998-2002
Associate Editor: Review of Financial Studies,
1995-1998
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| Research
Areas |
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Empirical
Corporate Finance |
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| Current
Projects |
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Trade
credit financing.
Measuring the risk exposure of non-financial firms.
Small business financing. |
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| Representative
Publications |
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"Does
Distance Still Matter? The Information Revolution and
Small Business Lending," (joint with Raghuram G.
Rajan), Journal Of Finance 57 (December 2002).
"Risk
Measurement and Hedging: With and Without Derivatives,"
(joint with Ramu Thiagarajan), Financial Management
29 (Winter 2000).
"Trade
Credit: Theories and Evidence," (joint with Raghuram
G. Rajan), Review of Financial Studies 10 (Fall
1997).
"The
Effect of Credit Market Competition on Firm-Creditor Relationships,"
(joint with Raghuram G. Rajan), Quarterly Journal of Economics (March 1995).
"Cash Flow Variability and A Firm's Pension Choice:
A Role for Operating Leverage," Journal of Financial
Economics 36 (December 1994).
"Posted versus Effective Spreads: Good Prices or
Bad Quotes?" (joint with David Fialkowski), Journal
of Financial Economics 35 (June 1994).
"The
Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small
Business Data," (joint with Raghuram G. Rajan),
Journal of Finance XLIX (March 1994).
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