Narasimhan Jegadeeshis the Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Finance
at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University. He is also a research
associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research Asset Pricing
Group. Professor Jegadeesh teaches courses on Empirical Research Meth-
ods, Portfolio Management and Fixed-Income Securities. His research
focuses on investments, stock market efficiency, analysts’ forecasts and
recommendations, and fixed-income securities. Professor Jegadeesh has
published extensively in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial
Economics, the Review of Financial Studiesand other leading academic
journals. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Financeand the
Journal of Financial Markets. His research has been featured in the Econo-
mist, Money, New York Times, Smart Money, Boston WPIX radio and
CNNFn.
Owen A. Lamontis Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management
and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
He obtained a B.A. in Economics and Government from Oberlin College in
1988, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology in 1994. Before moving to Yale in 2003, he previously taught at
Princeton and the University of Chicago. He has received numerous prizes
and awards, including fellowships from the National Science Foundation
and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His research is in asset pricing and cor-
porate finance, and has published academic papers on short-selling, stock
returns, bond returns, closed-end funds, and corporate diversification. At
Yale he teaches a course in Behavioral Finance.
Josef Lakonishokis the Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Research Associate at the National Bureau
of Economic Research (NBER), and a principal at LSV Asset Management.
Previously he was a Professor of Finance at Tel Aviv University. He received
his Ph.D. in Finance from Cornell University. Josef Lakonishok specializes
in empirical investment research. He has published more than eighty pa-
pers. His papers cover a broad range of investment topics such as perfor-
mance evaluation, analysts’ forecasts, share repurchases and fundamental
and momentum based trading strategies. Dr. Lakonishok served and is serv-
ing as an associate editor of many leading journals in financial economics.
Recently he was featured in the book Investment Titans, published by Mc-
Graw Hill.
Roni Michaelyis the Rudd Family professor of Management and a pro-
fessor of finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cor-
nell University. He is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
in Herzliya, Israel. Professor Michaely’s research interests are in the areas
of corporate finance, capital markets, and valuation. His current research
focuses on conflict of interest in the capital markets, corporate payout policy,
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