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	Benjamin E. Hermalin Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professorship in Finance Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group 510-642-7575 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On duty Office Hours: By appointment Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/hermalin Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required) LinkedIn Profile

Education

AB, Summa Cum Laude, Princeton University
PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Positions Held

At Haas since 1988
2006 - present, Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professorship in Finance
2005 - present, Chair, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
1998 - present, Professor, Haas School of Business
1998 - present, Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
2002, Interim Dean, Haas School of Business
1999 - 2006, Willis H. Booth Professor of Banking and Finance
1999 - 2002, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Haas School of Business
1998 - 1999, Professor of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management
1996 - 1998, Harold Furst Associate Professor of Management Philosophy & Values, Haas School of Business
1994 - 1996, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
1988 - 1994, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business

Current Research and Interests

Corporate governance
Executive compensation
Economics of leadership and organization
Contract theory
Competitive strategy and industrial organization

Selected Papers and Publications

“Your Network or Mine? The Economics of Routing Rules,” with Michael Katz. RAND Journal of Economics 37 (2006): 692–719.
“Leadership and Information,” with Mana Komai and Mark Stegeman. American Economic Review 97 (2007): 944–947.
"Moral Hazard and Verifiability: The Effects of Renegotiation in Agency," with Michael Katz. Econometrica 59 (1991): 1735-1753.
"Endogenously Chosen Boards of Directors and Their Monitoring of the CEO," with Michael S. Weisbach. American Economic Review 88 (1998): 96-118.
"Toward an Economic Theory of Leadership: Leading by Example." American Economic Review 88 (1998): 1188-1206.
"Firm Performance and Executive Compensation in the Savings and Loan Industry," with Nancy E. Wallace. Journal of Financial Economics 61 (2001): 139-170.
“Sender or Receiver: Who Should Pay to Exchange an Electronic Message?” with Michael Katz. RAND Journal of Economics, Autumn, 2004.
“Trends in Corporate Governance.” Journal of Finance 60, no. 5 (2005): 2351-2384.

Teaching

Principles of Business, UGBA 10
Economics 206

Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa, 1984
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1984-87
NSF Grants, 1991-93 & 1997-2000
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991
John M. Olin Faculty Research Fellowship, Yale Law School, 1992-93
Schwabacher Award, 1993

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