Ulrike Malmendier

Research at the intersection of corporate finance and behavioral economics, mostly from an empirical perspective. Particularly influential papers in this field include her work on CEO overconfidence (with G. Tate), her work on firms' contracts when customers are behavioral--the famous case study of gym subscriptions--(with S. Dellavigna), and her recent work on charitable giving field experiments (with Dellavigna and J. List). Recipient of the Fischer Black Prize of the American Finance Association (to a leading finance scholar under 40) and coeditor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. She contributes to the profession by organizing conferences and disseminating the findings in the field to broader audiences and the press.