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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Fischer Black Prize, American Finance Association (AFA)
  • 2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ulrike Malmendier is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. Their primary field of research lies within Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, covering a total of 46 publications. They have explored various subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Accounting, General Economics, and Demography.

Their work spans a range of topics, with notable focus areas such as Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Housing Market and Economics, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Financial Literacy, Pension, and Retirement Analysis, Corporate Finance and Governance, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis.

Ulrike Malmendier's recent publications include:

  • "Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations" (2020), Journal of Political Economy
  • "The making of hawks and doves" (2020), Journal of Monetary Economics
  • "Gender roles produce divergent economic expectations" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Experience Effects in Finance: Foundations, Applications, and Future Directions" (2021), European Finance Review
  • FBBVA Lecture 2020 Exposure, Experience, and Expertise: Why Personal Histories Matter in Economics (2021), Journal of the European Economic Association

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ulrike Malmendier include Francesco D'Acunto, Michael Weber, Marius Guenzel, Mark Borgschulte, and Canyao Liu.

The frequent publication venues for Malmendier's research are diverse and include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, The Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economy, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Throughout their career, Ulrike Malmendier has received several awards recognizing their contributions to the field. These include being named Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2017, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016, recipient of the Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association in 2013, and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2010.

Best Publications

  • CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment

    Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey Tate

  • Who Makes Acquisitions? CEO Overconfidence and the Market's Reaction

    Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey Tate

  • Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk Taking?*

    Ulrike Malmendier;Stefan Nagel

  • Overconfidence and Early-life Experiences: The Impact of Managerial Traits on Corporate Financial Policies

    Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey Tate;Jonathan Yan

  • Paying Not to Go to the Gym

    Stefano DellaVigna;Ulrike Malmendier

  • Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving

    Stefano DellaVigna;John A. List;Ulrike Malmendier

  • Financial Expertise of Directors

    A. Burak Güner;Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey Tate

  • Learning from Inflation Experiences

    Ulrike Malmendier;Stefan Nagel

  • Contract Design and Self-Control: Theory and Evidence

    Stefano DellaVigna;Ulrike Malmendier

  • Does Overconfidence Affect Corporate Investment? CEO Overconfidence Measures Revisited

    Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey Tate

  • CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment

    Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey A. Tate;Geoffrey A. Tate

  • Are small investors naive about incentives

    Ulrike Malmendier;Devin Shanthikumar

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  • Who Makes Acquisitions? CEO Overconfidence and the Market's Reaction

    Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey A. Tate;Geoffrey A. Tate

  • With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

    Joshua Lerner;Ulrike Malmendier

  • Defending the One Percent

    N. Gregory Mankiw

  • Sorting in Experiments with Application to Social Preferences

    Edward P Lazear;Ulrike Malmendier;Roberto A Weber

  • Voting to Tell Others

    Stefano DellaVigna;John A. List;Ulrike Malmendier;Gautam Rao

  • Behavioral CEOs: The Role of Managerial Overconfidence

    Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey Tate

  • Overconfidence and Early-Life Experiences: The Effect of Managerial Traits on Corporate Financial Policies

    Ulrike Malmendier;Geoffrey A. Tate;Geoffrey A. Tate;Jonathan Yan

  • Exposure to grocery prices and inflation expectations

    Francesco D’Acunto;Ulrike Malmendier;Juan Ospina;Michael Weber

  • Voting to Tell Others

    Gautam Rao;Stefano DellaVigna;John List;Ulrike Malmendier

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano DellaVigna
Stefano DellaVigna University of California, Berkeley
John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Stefan Nagel
Stefan Nagel University of Chicago
Enrico Moretti
Enrico Moretti University of California, Berkeley
Edward P. Lazear
Edward P. Lazear Stanford University
Roberto A. Weber
Roberto A. Weber University of Zurich
Klaus M. Schmidt
Klaus M. Schmidt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Josh Lerner
Josh Lerner Harvard University
David Card
David Card University of California, Berkeley
Colin F. Camerer
Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology

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