Robert Vishny

Robert Ward Vishny (* 1959 ) is an American economist , mathematician and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

Vishny first studied economics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Michigan . In 1981 he graduated with an Artium Baccalaureus with honors. He then continued his studies at the Boston Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he graduated in September 1985 with a Ph.D. with the work Informational aspects of securities markets .

From the fall of 1985 Vishny initially worked as an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago , before being appointed full professor at the university four years later. In 1989 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 1993 he received the Eric J. Gleacher Professorship for Finance , which he held until summer 2005. As a result, he concentrated on the one hand on his management tasks at the investment company LSV Asset Management , which he co-founded in 1994 , while on the other hand he studied psychology at Northwestern University . Here he completed his Master of Arts degree in psychological counseling in 2008 . In January 2010, he returned to the University of Chicago, where he took the Myron-S.-Scholes Chair in Finance .

Vishny's work focuses on behavioral economics and financial aspects of institutional economics . In particular, he dealt with corporate governance and market-based control mechanisms, privatization and the role of the state in the economic area, investor expectations and moods as well as the arbitrage theory and its limitations. Together with Kevin M. Murphy and Andrei Shleifer , he made a decisive contribution to the further development of the Big Push model set up by the Austrian Paul Rosenstein-Rodan , which describes development strategies in terms of funding boosts in developing countries.

In addition to his academic work, Vishny was also involved in various institutions. Between 1991 and 1998 he headed the corporate finance program of the National Bureau of Economic Research . Between 1988 and 1999 he was an editorial member of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics . As a member of the American Finance Association , he was director of the organization between 1994 and 1996. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002 .

Web links

• Robert Vishny at the University of Chicago
• Literature by and about Robert Vishny in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Vishny in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed July 30, 2019 .