2026 Chester S. Spatt: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	41	2169	1959	1249	1099	102	8821

Overview

Chester S. Spatt is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within business, management, and economics, with a particular focus on finance and related subfields.

The main fields of study for Spatt include:

Business, Management and Accounting
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these, the scientist's work concentrates on several subfields such as:

Finance
Management Science and Operations Research
Accounting
Economics and Econometrics
Management Information Systems

The topics frequently addressed in their research encompass:

Corporate Finance and Governance
Auction Theory and Applications
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Stock Market Forecasting Methods
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

Chester S. Spatt's recent publications include:

A Tale of Two Crises: The 2008 Mortgage Meltdown and the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis (2020), published in The Review of Asset Pricing Studies
Proxy Advisory Firms, Governance, Market Failure, and Regulation (2020), published in The Review of Corporate Finance Studies
Conflicts of Interest in Asset Management and Advising (2020), published in Annual Review of Financial Economics
Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
Would Order-by-Order Auctions Be Competitive? (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Spatt include:

Thomas Ernst
Andrey Malenko
Nadya Malenko
Itay Goldstein
Mao Ye

In terms of publication venues, Spatt has contributed mainly to:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Review of Corporate Finance Studies
Annual Review of Financial Economics
The Journal of Finance
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies

Best Publications

An Empirical Analysis of the Limit Order Book and the Order Flow in the Paris Bourse

Bruno Biais;Pierre Hillion;Chester Spatt

1683
Citations
Equilibrium Forward Curves for Commodities

Bryan R. Routledge;Duane J. Seppi;Chester S. Spatt

677
Citations
Market microstructure: A survey of microfoundations, empirical results, and policy implications

Bruno Biais;Larry Glosten;Chester Spatt

625
Citations
Price Discovery and Learning during the Preopening Period in the Paris Bourse

Bruno Biais;Pierre Hillion;Chester S. Spatt

445
Citations
Equity Trading in the 21st Century

James J. Angel;Lawrence E. Harris;Chester S. Spatt

347
Citations
Optimal Asset Location and Allocation with Taxable and Tax‐Deferred Investing

Robert M. Dammon;Chester S. Spatt;Harold H. Zhang

336
Citations
Adoption externalities as public goods

Philip H. Dybvig;Chester S. Spatt

329
Citations
Preplay Communication, Participation Restrictions, and Efficiency in Initial Public Offerings

Chester Spatt;Sanjay Srivastava

317
Citations
Optimal Consumption and Investment with Capital Gains Taxes

Robert M. Dammon;Chester S. Spatt;Harold H. Zhang

305
Citations
Interim News and the Role of Proxy Voting Advice

Cindy R. Alexander;Mark A. Chen;Duane J. Seppi;Chester S. Spatt

192
Citations
Mutual fund performance and governance structure: The role of portfolio managers and boards of directors

Robert H. Smith;We;Rich Evans;Christopher Faugere

187
Citations
The Optimal Trading and Pricing of Securities with Asymmetric Capital Gains Taxes and Transaction Costs

Robert M. Dammon;Chester S. Spatt

187
Citations
Bid-Ask Spreads, Trading Networks, and the Pricing of Securitizations

Burton Hollifield;Artem Neklyudov;Chester Spatt

175
Citations
Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information

Bruno Biais;Peter Bossaerts;Chester Spatt

171
Citations
Equity Trading in the 21st Century: An Update

James J. Angel;Lawrence E. Harris;Chester S. Spatt

165
Citations
Opacity, Credit Rating Shopping and Bias

Francesco Sangiorgi;Chester Spatt

159
Citations
The Effect of Refinancing Costs and Market Imperfections on the Optimal Call Strategy and the Pricing of Debt Contracts

Kenneth B. Dunn;Chester S. Spatt

153
Citations
Credit-Rating Shopping, Selection and the Equilibrium Structure of Ratings

Francesco Sangiorgi;Jonathan S. Sokobin;Chester S. Spatt

134
Citations
Optimal Asset Location and Allocation with Taxable and Tax-Deferred Investing

Robert M. Dammon;Harold H. Zhang;Chester S. Spatt

114
Citations
Optimal Consumption and Investment with Capital Gains Taxes

Robert M. Dammon;Harold H. Zhang;Chester S. Spatt

101
Citations
A Survey of the Microstructure of Fixed-Income Markets

Hendrik Bessembinder;Chester Spatt;Kumar Venkataraman

97
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Biais Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris

Peter Bossaerts University of Cambridge

Itzhak Ben-David The Ohio State University

Itay Goldstein University of Pennsylvania

Arnoud W. A. Boot University of Amsterdam

Lawrence Harris University of Southern California

Hendrik Bessembinder Arizona State University

Edward J. Kane Boston College

Russ Wermers University of Maryland, College Park

Philip H. Dybvig Washington University in St. Louis

External Links

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