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	Jonathan B. Berk Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance Haas Finance Group 510-642-3364 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On leave Office Hours: By appointment, F634 Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/berk Curriculum Vitae

Education

BA, Physics, Rice University
MA, Finance, Yale University
MPhil, Finance, Yale University
PhD, Finance, Yale University

Positions Held

At Haas since 1998
2008 - present, Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance I, Haas School of Business
2006 - 2008, Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance & Accounting, Haas School of Business
2002 - 2006, Harold Furst Associate Professor of Management Philosophy and Values, Haas School of Business
2000 - 2002, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
1998 - 2000, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
1996 - 1998, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
1995 - 1996, Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University
1991 - 1996, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
1990 - 1991, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1985 - 1987, Associate, Goldman Sachs and Company
1984 - 1985, Consultant, Andersen Consulting

External Service and Assignments

Associate Editor, Journal of Finance
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
Advisory Board, Market Engine Corporation, Tugboat Partners

Current Research and Interests

Evaluation and performance of active portfolio managers
Firm valuation
Valuation and return dynamics of growth stocks
Applications of real options in investment decisions
Market "anomalies" - size effect, B/M, momentum, etc.
Information revelation in stock prices

Selected Papers and Publications

Corporate Finance, with P. DeMarzo. 2007.

“The Valuation and Return Dynamics of New Ventures,” with R.C. Green and V. Naik. Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.

"Sorting out Sorts." Journal of Finance 55 (2000): 407-27.

"A Simple Approach for Deciding when to Invest." American Economic Review 89 (1999): 1319-1326.

"Optimal Investment, Growth Options and Security Returns,'' with R.C. Green and V. Naik. Journal of Finance 54 (1999): 1153-1608.

"Necessary Conditions for the CAPM." Journal of Economic Theory 73 (1997): 245-257.

"The Price is Right, But Are the Bids? An Empirical Investigation of Rational Decision Making," with E. Hughson and K. Vanderzande. American Economic Review 86 (1996): 954-970.

"A Critique of Size Related Anomalies." Review of Financial Studies 8 (1995): 275-286.

Teaching

Corporate Finance, E203

Honors and Awards

FAME Research Prize, 2003
Best Paper, Utah Winter Finance Conference, 2003
Honorable Mention, Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Evening & Weekend MBA Program, 2000-2001, 1999-2000
Smith Breeden Prize (Distinguished Paper), Journal of Finance, 1999
Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence, Financial Analysts Journal, 1997
First Prize, Roger F. Murray Prize Competition, The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, 1996
Second Prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Third Annual Academic Competition, 1996
Best Paper, Review of Financial Studies, 1995
Richard D. Irwin Doctoral Fellowship, 1990

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