Faculty & Research
Faculty & Research
Faculty Research in UCLA Anderson Review
When Younger Investors Overreact to News, Others Feel It
Inexperienced investors, lacking historical context, impact markets
How an Excess of Stock Analyst Optimism Lands on Companies Least Deserving of It
Results of financially weak firms are difficult to forecast; in uncertainty, Mark Grinblatt finds, Wall Street’s views are overly generous
How Tech's Disruption Alters Investors' Appetite for Risk
New technology’s upending of the old creates demand for alternative assets to offset risk
Faculty Research Grants
Meet the recipients of 2020-2021 grant cycle.
Conference on Financial Markets
Held annually, the Conference on Financial Markets features high-quality academic research relating to financial markets, and includes participation from leading practitioners at the intersection of research and practice. Papers are invited for submission on the broad theme of financial markets.
World-Class Faculty
Antonio Bernardo
“I think one of the huge advantages of coming to a place like UCLA to get your MBA is that you are exposed to people who are really on the frontiers of finance.”
Eduardo Schwartz
“My hope is that students in my class will learn how to think… If they learn the process of thinking about these problems, they will be able to come and see them and solve them again.”
Mark Grinblatt
"I've been here since 1981, and I've been very happy. It's been a fantastic finance group, and I've had many wonderful colleagues here."
Ivo Welch
"Learning doesn't end just here at Anderson, it's the students' entire lives."
Bhagwan Chowdhry
"Do the stuff you are most afraid of, take the hardest classes. This is your chance to be creative without worrying about getting fired."
Mark Garmaise
"I also want students to come away with a sense that people are not just calculating machines, the models only go so far."
Bruce Carlin
"I was a professor of surgery at Wash U when I did my MBA. I loved Finance so much that I decided to make a career change."
Barney Hartman-Glaser
"We're going to teach you lots of tools...internalize what those tools allow you to do in terms of thinking critically about the world."