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Overview

Dan Bernhardt is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within economics, econometrics, finance, business, management, and accounting. They have contributed extensively to the field with a focus on corporate finance, financial markets, auction theory, banking stability, and consumer market behavior.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • The Night and Day of Amihud's (2002) Liquidity Measure, 2020, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies
  • Rent Extraction with Securities Plus Cash, 2021, The Journal of Finance
  • The Race to the Base, 2020, American Economic Review
  • Demagogues and the Economic Fragility of Democracies, 2022, American Economic Review
  • Costly auction entry, royalty payments, and the optimality of asymmetric designs, 2020, Journal of Economic Theory

Several frequent co-authors have collaborated with Bernhardt, indicating a range of joint research efforts. These include:

  • Kostas Koufopoulos
  • Giulio Trigilia
  • Yashar H. Barardehi
  • Tingjun Liu
  • Mehdi Shadmehr

Bernhardt has published regularly in key academic journals and venues. Their work appears most frequently in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • American Economic Review
  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économie

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Marketing

Among the main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Best Publications

  • Political polarization and the electoral effects of media bias

    Dan Bernhardt;Stefan Krasa;Mattias Polborn

  • Enterprise, Inequality and Economic Development

    Huw Lloyd-Ellis;Dan Bernhardt

  • Strategic Promotion and Compensation

    Dan Bernhardt

  • Corporate Tournaments, Human Capital Acquisition, and the Firm Size-Wage Relation

    Jan Zábojník;Dan Bernhardt

  • Collective Action with Uncertain Payoffs: Coordination, Public Signals, and Punishment Dilemmas

    Mehdi Shadmehr;Dan Bernhardt

  • A Note on Sequential Auctions

    Dan Bernhardt;David Scoones

  • Promotion, turnover, and preemptive wage offers

    Dan Bernhardt;David Scoones

  • Pirated for profit

    Joshua Slive;Dan Bernhardt

  • State Censorship

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  • Term limits and pork barrel politics

    Dan Bernhardt;Sangita Dubey;Eric Hughson

  • Investment and Insider Trading

    Dan Bernhardt;Burton Hollifield;Eric Hughson

  • Competence and Ideology

    Dan Bernhardt;Odilon Câmara;Francesco Squintani

  • Why Do Larger Orders Receive Discounts on the London Stock Exchange

    Dan Bernhardt;Vladimir Dvoracek;Eric Hughson;Ingrid M. Werner

  • The Case for Responsible Parties

    Dan Bernhardt;John Duggan;Francesco Squintani

  • "Rip-off" ATM surcharges

    Nadia Massoud;Dan Bernhardt

  • Anonymous sequential games with aggregate uncertainty

    James Bergin;Dan Bernhardt

  • Informed Trading When Information Becomes Stale

    Dan Bernhardt;Jianjun Miao

  • Painting the tape: Aggregate evidence

    Dan Bernhardt;Ryan J. Davies

  • Promotion, Turnover, and Discretionary Human Capital Acquisition

    David Scoones;Dan Bernhardt

  • Financial Speculators' Underperformance: Learning, Self‐Selection, and Endogenous Liquidity

    Reza Mahani;Dan Bernhardt

  • Speculative dynamics

    Dan Bernhardt;P. Seiler;B. Taub

Frequent Co-Authors

John Duggan
John Duggan University of Rochester
Murillo Campello
Murillo Campello University of Florida
Peter J. Seiler
Peter J. Seiler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jianjun Miao
Jianjun Miao Zhejiang University
David K. Backus
David K. Backus New York University

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