Elisabeth Kempf
Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Associate Professor of Business Administration
Elisabeth Kempf is an Associate Professor in the Finance Unit, teaching Finance 1 to MBA students. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR).
Professor Kempf’s research interests lie at the intersection of political economy and empirical corporate finance. Her work has explored the role of political partisanship and polarization in finance, conflicts of interest in information production, as well as issues related to corporate governance. Her research has been cited in Bloomberg, CNBC, Financial Times, New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Management Science. Her research awards include the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award, the BlackRock Best Paper Award given annually by the Financial Research Association, and second place for the Jensen Prize, given annually by the Journal of Financial Economics. She currently serves as associate editor for the Review of Financial Studies.
Prior to joining Harvard Business School, Professor Kempf spent six years as a faculty member at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in finance from Tilburg University (Netherlands), an M.Sc. in finance from HEC Paris (France), and a B.Sc. in business administration from the University of Mannheim (Germany). Prior to her Ph.D. studies, Professor Kempf worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank.