Andrea L. Eisfeldt
Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance and Professor of Finance
About
Andrea Eisfeldt’s research over the years has focused on macroeconomics and finance, specifically the dynamics of market liquidity and the effects of financial frictions on investment. Her latest research looks at complex assets and tries to understand why complex securities tend to have higher average returns. She is exploring why over-the-counter derivatives trading is such a concentrated market and, among other things, why dealers earn such high intermediation profits.
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8 Articles

Boom of Intangible Assets Felt Across Industries and Economy
Rethinking issues around productivity, income inequality and industry concentration

Employee or Capitalist? Equity Compensation Merges the Two
Labor’s losses to capital, much studied, aren’t quite as grim when stock and options are tabulated

How Bond and Stock Prices Combine to Influence Corporate Investment
Equity volatility can encourage — or dampen — investment, depending on a firm’s bond spread

Adapting Value Investing to the 21st Century
Including intangible assets in book value vastly improves the strategy’s returns

The Moat That Keeps Complex Asset Strategies Profitable
Andrea Eisfeldt finds that hedge funds with infrastructure to execute sophisticated arbitrage crowd out less-expert investors

Calculating a Value for the Government Support Banks Enjoy
Researchers’ model could quantify the risks in the growing movement to ease up on Dodd-Frank regulations

Single-Family Rentals: What Drives Investor Return?
A unique data set provides fresh insights for the growing institutional investor market