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	Christopher A. Hennessy Associate Professor Barbara & Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow Haas Finance Group 510-643-1900 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: Off duty Office Hours: By appointment Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/hennessy Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, Economics and Political Science, Swarthmore College
MA, Public Affairs, Princeton University
PhD, Economics, Princeton University

Positions Held

At Haas since 2001
2006 - present, Associate Professor (with tenure), Haas School of Business
2001 - 2006, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
2005, Visiting Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Business, UCLA
1994 - 1996, Senior Consultant, KPMG Peat Marwick
1993, Research Associate, United States Treasury: Office of Tax Analysis

External Service and Assignments

Member of Advisory Board at Benchmark Metrics, Inc.

Current Research and Interests

Corporate finance
Contract theory
Industrial organization

Selected Papers and Publications

"How Costly is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation," with Toni Whited. Brattle Prize for a Distinguished Paper published in Journal of Finance (2007).
"Tobin’s Q, Debt Overhang, and Investment." Brattle Prize for distinguished corporate finance paper published in Journal of Finance (2004).
"Debt Dynamics," with Toni Whited. Brattle Prize for outstanding corporate finance paper published in Journal of Finance (2005).
"Testing Q Theory with Financing Frictions," with Amnon Levy and Toni Whited. Journal of Financial Economics (2007).
"Can the Tradeoff Theory Explain Debt Structure?" with Dirk Hackbarth and Hayne Leland. Review of Financial Studies (2007).
"Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary with Macroeconomic Conditions?" with Amnon Levy. Journal of Monetary Economics (2007).

Teaching

Corporate Finance, MBA/EWMBA 231

Honors and Awards

Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
Guttmann Fellow, 2007, Vienna
Schwabacher Fellow for 2006. University of California, Berkeley
Woodrow Wilson Summer Research Fellowship, 1998 and 2000
Robertson Fellowship, 1998 - 2000
Princeton University Fellowship, 1996 - 1999
Beinecke Memorial Scholarship, 1992 - 1994
Chicago Business Fellowship, summer 1991

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