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Karl Schmedders

Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

 
Academic Positions Held
 

2005 - present
Associate professor with tenure, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2001 – 2005
Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

1998 – 2001
Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

1996 – 1998
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford

1995 – 1996
Acting Instructor and Teaching Affiliate, Dept. of Operations Research, Stanford University

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  DECS 434: Statistical Methods for Management Decisions
   
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
 

2004 Nomination of a paper for the 2003 Smith-Breeden Prize, The Journal of Finance.

2000, ’02, ’04
Chairs’ Core Course Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management

2002, ’03, '04
WHU Best Teacher Award (in Winter Semester), WHU Koblenz, Germany

2002
L.G. Lavengood Professor of the Year, Kellogg School of Management
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1996
Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford University’s most prestigious teaching award

1996
Best Engineering Professor of the Year Award, Stanford Society of Women Engineers

1993
Best Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, Dept. of Operations Research, Stanford University

   
Professional Leadership
 

2000 – present Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

1997, 2003, ’04 Co-organizer of a one-week summer workshop of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE)

2003 Member of the Scientific Conference Committee, 12th European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory, Bielefeld University

Member of: American Economic Association, Econometric Society, Society for Computational Economics, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Mathematical Programming Society, INFORMS

   
Research Areas
  Computational Economics, General Equilibrium Theory, Asset Pricing, Portfolio Choice
   
Current Projects
  Methods for Finding All Equilibria of Economic Models
Portfolio Choice in Dynamic Economies
   
Representative Publications
 

“Computing Equilibria in Finance Economies with Incomplete Markets and Transaction Costs,” with P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Economic Theory, 27 (2006) 493 – 512. (lead article of Volume 27, number 3).

“Approximate versus Exact Equilibria in Dynamic Economies,” with Felix Kubler, Econometrica, 73 (2005) 1205 – 1235.

“Excess Price Volatility and Financial Innovation,” with Alessandro Citanna, Economic Theory, 26 (2005) 559 – 587.

“Effects of Asset Market Structure on Welfare and Trading Volume,” with Kenneth L. Judd and Felix Kubler, in Assets, Beliefs, and Equilibria in Economic Dynamics, Essays in Honor of Mordecai Kurz, ed. by C. D. Aliprantis, K. J. Arrow, P. Hammond, F. Kubler, H.-M. Wu, and N. C. Yannelis, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004.

“Stationary Equilibria in Asset-Pricing Models with Incomplete Markets and Collateral,” with Felix Kubler, Econometrica, 71 (2003) 1767 – 1793.

“Computational Methods for Dynamic Equilibria with Heterogeneous Agents,” with Kenneth L. Judd and Felix Kubler, in Advances in Economic Theory and Econometrics Volume III, ed. by M. Dewatripoint, L. P. Hansen, and S. J. Turnovsky, New York: Econometric Society, 2003.

“Asset-Trading Volume with Dynamically Complete Markets and Heterogeneous Agents,” with Kenneth L. Judd and Felix Kubler, The Journal of Finance, 58 (2003) 2203 – 2217. [This paper received a nomination for the 2003 Smith-Breeden Prize.]

“Generic Inefficiency of Equilibria in the General Equilibrium Model with Incomplete Asset Markets and Infinite Time,” with Felix Kubler, Economic Theory, 22 (2003) 1 – 15. [Lead Article]

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