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Janice C. Eberly

John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Finance

Finance

BS 1986, University of California, Davis; PhD 1991, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Finance, 2002 - present.
John L. and Helen Kellogg Associate Professor of Finance, 2000 - 2002.
Associate Professor of Finance, 1998 - 2000.

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor of Finance, 1997 - 1998.
Assistant Professor of Finance, 1991 - 1997.

   
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
  Chairs' Core Teaching Award, 1999 and 2001 and 2006.
Executive Masters Program 50, Outstanding Professor, 2002.
Marc and Sheri Rapaport Core Teaching Award, Wharton School, 1996.
Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, 1995-1999.
   
Professional Leadership
 

American Economic Association, elected member of the Executive Committee 2007, commencing 2008 - 2010
American Finance Association, Nominating Committee, 2008
American Economic Association, Program Committee, 2006-07, 2008-09
Western Finance Association, Program Committee, 2008.
Chair of the Finance Department, 2005 – 2007.
Associate Editor, American Economic Review, 2004 – present. Associate Editor, Journal of Monetary Economics, 1999 - present.
Associate Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003 - present.
Associate Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2000 - 2006.
Associate Editor, European Economic Review, 2003 - 2006.

   
Research Areas
  Capital Investments by Firms and Households; Implications for Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, and Macroeconomics.
   
Current Projects
  Costs of changing capital stocks and portfolios; the effects of such costs on capital allocation.
   
Representative Publications
  "Adjustment of Consumers' Durables Stocks: Evidence from Automobile Purchases," Journal of Political Economy, June 1994.

"A Unified Model of Investment Under Uncertainty," (with Andrew B. Abel) American Economic Review, December 1994.

"Options, the Value of Capital, and Investment," (with Andrew B. Abel, Avinash K. Dixit, and Robert S. Pindyck), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1996.

"Optimal Investment with Costly Reversibility," (with Andrew B. Abel), Review of Economic Studies, August 1996.

"Multi-factor Dynamic Investment under Uncertainty" (with Jan van Mieghem), Journal of Economic Theory, August 1997.

"The Mix and Scale of Factors with Irreversibility and Fixed Costs of Investment" (with Andrew B. Abel), Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, October 1998.

" The Effects of Irreversibility and Uncertainty on Capital Accumulation" (with Andrew B. Abel), Journal of Monetary Economics, December 1999.

"Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market" (with Andrew B. Abel and Stavros Panageas), American Economic Review, forthcoming.

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