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Itay Goldstein Professor of Finance Professor of Economics (Secondary) Chairperson, Finance Department Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Phone: 215-746-0499 E-mail: itayg@wharton.upenn.edu
Resume (updated:
April 2026) Complete and Active Working Papers Keynote Speeches,
Panels, and Media RESEARCH
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS 1.
On ESG
Investing: Heterogeneous Preferences, Information, and Asset Prices with Alexandr Kopytov, Lin
Shen, and Haotian Xiang, Journal of Finance,
forthcoming 2.
Market
Feedback: Evidence from the Horse's Mouth with Bibo Liu and Liyan Yang, Journal
of Financial Economics, vol. 180, article 104255, June 2026 3.
Information
Sharing in Financial Markets with Yan Xiong and Liyan Yang, Journal
of Financial Economics, vol. 163, article 103967, January 2025 4. Utility Tokens as a Commitment to Competition with Deeksha Gupta and Ruslan Sverchkov, Journal of Finance, vol. 79(6), pp. 4197-4246, December 2024 5. Liquidity Transformation and Fragility in the US Banking Sector with Qi Chen, Zeqiong Huang, and Rahul Vashishtha, Journal of Finance, vol. 79(6), pp. 3985-4036, December 2024 6. Bank Heterogeneity and Financial Stability with Alexandr Kopytov, Lin Shen, and Haotian Xiang, Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 162, article 103934, December 2024 7. Corporate Responses to Stock Price Fragility with Richard Friberg and Kristine Hankins, Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 153, article 103795, March 2024 8. The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies: Evidence from the EDGAR Implementation with Shijie Yang and Luo Zuo, Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 61(5), pp. 1699-1733, December 2023 9.
Optimal
Deposit Insurance with Eduardo Davila, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 131(7), pp. 1676-1730,
July 2023 10.
Bank
Transparency and Deposit Flows with Qi Chen, Zeqiong Huang, and Rahul
Vashishtha, Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 146(2), pp.
475-501, November 2022 11.
Commodity
Financialization and Information Transmission with Liyan Yang, Journal
of Finance, vol. 77(5), pp. 2613-2667, October 2022 12.
Financial
Fragility in the COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of Investment Funds in Corporate
Bond Markets with Antonio Falato and Ali Hortacsu, Journal of
Monetary Economics, vol. 123, pp. 35-52, October 2021 13.
Mutual
Fund Flows and Fluctuations in Credit and Business Cycles with Azi
Ben-Rephael and Jaewon Choi, Journal of Financial Economics,
vol. 139(1), pp. 84-108, January 2021 14.
Credit
Rating Inflation and Firms’ Investments with Chong Huang, Journal
of Finance, vol. 75(6), pp. 2929-2972, December 2020 15.
Monetary
Stimulus and Bank Lending with Indraneel Chakraborty and
Andrew MacKinlay, Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 136(1),
pp. 189-218, April 2020 16.
Good
Disclosure, Bad Disclosure with Liyan Yang, Journal of Financial
Economics, vol. 131(1), pp. 118-138, January 2019 17.
Government
Guarantees and Financial Stability with Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti,
and Agnese Leonello, Journal of
Economic Theory, vol. 177, pp. 518-557, September 2018 18.
Stress
Tests and Information Disclosure with Yaron Leitner, Journal of Economic Theory, vol.
177, pp. 34-69, September 2018 19.
Housing
Price Booms and Crowding-Out Effects in Bank Lending with Indraneel Chakraborty and Andrew MacKinlay, Review
of Financial Studies, vol. 31(7), pp. 2806-2853, July 2018 20.
Investor
Flows and Fragility in Corporate Bond Funds with Hao Jiang and David Ng, Journal
of Financial Economics, vol. 126(3), pp. 592-613, December 2017 21. Incentives for Information Production in Markets where Prices Affect Real Investment with James Dow and Alexander Guembel, Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 15(4), pp. 877-909, August 2017 22. Feedback Effects, Asymmetric Trading, and the Limits to Arbitrage with Alex Edmans and Wei Jiang, American Economic Review, vol. 105(12), pp. 3766-3797, December 2015 23. Government Intervention and Information Aggregation by Prices with Philip Bond, Journal of Finance, vol. 70(6), pp. 2777-2811, December 2015 24.
Information Diversity and
Complementarities in Trading and Information Acquisition with Liyan Yang, Journal
of Finance, vol.
70(4), pp. 1723-1765, August 2015 25.
Speculation and Hedging in
Segmented Markets with
Yan Li and Liyan Yang, Review
of Financial Studies, vol.
27(3), pp. 881-922, March 2014 26. Trading Frenzies and Their Impact on Real Investment with Emre Ozdenoren and Kathy Yuan, Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 109(2), pp. 566-582, August 2013 27.
The
Real Effects of Financial Markets: The Impact of Prices on Takeovers with
Alex Edmans and Wei Jiang,
Journal of Finance, vol. 67(3), pp. 933-971, June 2012 28.
Self-Fulfilling
Credit Market Freezes with Lucian Bebchuk Review of Financial
Studies, vol. 24(11), pp. 3519-3555, November 2011 29.
Learning and
Complementarities in Speculative Attacks with Emre Ozdenoren and Kathy
Yuan, Review of Economic Studies,
vol. 78(1), pp. 263-292, January 2011 30.
Payoff
Complementarities and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Mutual Fund Outflows
with Qi Chen and Wei Jiang, Journal
of Financial Economics, vol. 97(2), pp. 239-262, August 2010 31.
Market-Based
Corrective Actions with Philip Bond and Edward Simpson Prescott, Review of Financial Studies, vol.
23(2), pp. 781-820, February 2010 32.
Activist Arbitrage: A Study of Open-Ending
Attempts of Closed-End Funds with Michael Bradley, Alon Brav, and Wei Jiang, Journal of Financial Economics,
vol. 95(1), pp. 1-19, January 2010 33.
Directors'
Ownership in the U.S. Mutual Fund Industry with Qi Chen and Wei Jiang, Journal of
Finance, vol. 63(6),
pp. 2629-2677, December 2008 34.
Manipulation and the Allocational Role of Prices with
Alexander Guembel, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 75(1), pp.
133-164, January 2008 35.
The
Positive Effects of Biased Self-Perceptions in Firms with Simon
Gervais, Review of Finance, vol. 11(3), pp. 453-496,
September 2007 36.
Price
Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price with Qi Chen
and Wei Jiang, Review of Financial Studies, vol. 20(3), pp.
619-650, May 2007 37.
An Information
Based Trade off Between
Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment with Assaf
Razin, Journal of International Economics, vol. 70(1), pp.
271-295, September 2006
38.
Demand
Deposit Contracts and the Probability of Bank Runs with Ady Pauzner, Journal
of Finance, vol. 60(3), pp. 1293-1328, June 2005 39.
Strategic
Complementarities and the Twin Crises Economic Journal,
vol. 115, pp. 368-390, April 2005
40.
The Choice of
Exchange Rate Regime and Speculative Attacks with Alex Cukierman and
Yossi Spiegel, Journal of the European Economic Association,
vol. 2(6), pp. 1206-1241, December 2004
41.
Contagion
of Self-Fulfilling Financial Crises Due to Diversification of Investment
Portfolios with Ady Pauzner, Journal of Economic Theory,
vol. 119(1), pp. 151-183, November 2004 OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS 42.
What Drives
Money Competition: Comparative Advantage in Payments versus Reserves with
Ming Yang and Yao Zeng, American Economic Association Papers
and Proceedings, vol. 116, pp. 439-445, May 2026 43.
Fragility
of Financial Markets with Chong Huang and Liyan Yang, Annual
Review of Financial Economics, vol. 17, pp. 27-48, December 2025 44.
The Role
of Theory in Finance Research, The Financial
Review, vol. 60(3), pp. 657-666, August 2025 45.
The
Next Chapter of Big Data in Finance with Chester Spatt and Mao Ye, Review of Financial Studies, vol.
38(3), pp. 605-622, March 2025 46.
Information
in Financial Markets and Its Real Effects, Review of Finance, vol.
27(1), pp. 1-32, February 2023 47.
Stress Tests
Disclosure: Theory, Practice, and New Perspectives with Yaron Leitner, in Handbook of Financial
Stress Testing, edited by J. Doyne Farmer, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis,
Til Schuermann, and Thom Wetzer (Cambridge University Press), pp. 208-223,
April 2022 48.
COVID-19 and
Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy with Ralph Koijen
and Holger Mueller, Review of
Financial Studies, vol. 34(11), pp. 5135-5148, November 2021 49.
Big Data in
Finance with Chester Spatt and Mao Ye, Review of Financial Studies, vol. 34(7), pp. 3213-3225, July
2021 50.
To FinTech
and Beyond with Wei Jiang and G Andrew Karolyi, Review of Financial Studies, vol. 32(5), pp. 1647-1661, May
2019 51.
The Interplay among
Financial Regulations, Resilience, and Growth with Franklin Allen and
Julapa Jagtiani, Journal of
Financial Services Research, vol. 53 (2-3), pp. 141-162, June 2018 52.
Information
Disclosure in Financial Markets with Liyan Yang, Annual Review of Financial Economics, vol. 9, pp. 101-125,
December 2017 53.
Comment
on “Redemption Risk and Cash Hoarding by Asset Managers” by Morris, Shim, and
Shin Journal of Monetary
Economics, vol. 89, pp. 88-91, August 2017 54.
Financial Regulation in
Europe: Foundations and Challenges with Thorsten Beck and Elena Carletti,
in Economics without Borders:
Economic Research for European Policy Challenges, edited by Richard
Blundell et al. (Cambridge University Press), pp. 470-511, April 2017 55.
Enhancing Prudential Standards in
Financial Regulations
with Franklin Allen, Julapa Jagtiani, and William Lang,
Journal
of Financial Services Research, vol. 49(2-3), pp. 133-151, June 2016 56.
Bayesian Persuasion in
Coordination Games with Chong Huang, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, vol. 106(5),
pp. 592-596, May 2016 57.
Three Branches of Theories
of Financial Crises with Assaf Razin, Foundations and Trends in Finance, vol. 10(2), pp. 113-180, December 2015 58.
Moral
Hazard and Government Guarantees in the Banking Industry with Franklin
Allen, Elena Carletti, and Agnese Leonello, Journal of Financial Regulation, vol. 1(1), pp. 30-50, March
2015 59.
Corporate Finance Theory:
Introduction to Special Issue with Dirk Hackbarth, Journal of Corporate Finance, vol.
29, pp. 535-541, December 2014 60.
Should
Banks’ Stress Test Results be Disclosed? An Analysis of the Costs and
Benefits with Haresh Sapra, Foundations
and Trends in Finance, vol. 8, pp. 1-54, March 2014 61.
The Real Effects of Financial
Markets with Philip Bond and Alex Edmans, Annual Review of Financial Economics,
vol. 4, pp. 339-360, December 2012 62.
Empirical Literature on
Financial Crises: Fundamentals vs. Panic in The Evidence and Impact of Financial
Globalization, edited by Gerard Caprio (Elsevier, Amsterdam), pp.
523-534, December 2012 SELECTED WORKING PAPERS 63.
Market Feedback about Emerging
Technologies, with Sean Cao, Jie He, and Yabo Zhao 64.
Earnings
Information Spillovers and Depositor Contagion, with Qi
Chen, Rahul Vashishtha, and Benda Yin 65.
AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic
Collusion, and Price Efficiency, with Winston Dou and Yan Ji 66.
Financial
Market Fragility in the Era of AI Planning, with
Winston Dou and Yan Ji 67.
Human
Edge, Machine Limits: AI-Human Competition in Financial Markets, with
Winston Dou, Zigang Li, and Liyan Yang, 68.
Target Allocation Funds, Strategic
Complementarities, and Market Fragility, with
Chuck Fang 69.
Bank
Diversification and Lending Resiliency, with
Michael Gelman and Andrew MacKinlay 70.
Monetary
Policy in the Age of Universal Banking, with
Michael Gelman and Andrew MacKinlay 71.
Open
Banking under Maturity Transformation, with
Chong Huang and Liyan Yang 72.
Payments,
Reserves, and Financial Fragility, with Ming Yang and Yao Zeng COLUMNS IN THE POPULAR
PRESS · The
Bright Side of Bank Diversification with Michael Gelman and Andrew
MacKinlay, The Banker, August
2023 · SVB:
US Regulators Have Generated “A Moral Hazard” with Yao Zeng, The Banker, March 2023 · The Real Effects of the
Chinese Stock Market with Bibo Liu and Liyan Yang, Vox-China, September 2021 · As
Inflation Risk Rises, Banks Should Step Up Stress Tests, The Banker, August 2021 · Lessons
from Corporate Bond Market Fragility, The Banker, April 2021 · Why
We Should Worry about Trading Frenzies, The Banker, March 2021 · Fintech
and the New Financial Landscape with Julapa Jagtiani and Aaron Klein, Banking Perspectives, March 2019 · The
Current State and Future Challenges of Financial Regulation with Thorsten
Beck and Elena Carletti, VoxEU,
November 2016 · Dark
Side of Housing-Price Appreciation with Indraneel Chakraborty and Andrew
MacKinlay, VoxEU, November
2013 · Theories of
Financial Crises with Assaf Razin, VoxEU,
March 2013 · How to
Give Banks Confidence to Lend to Businesses with Lucian Bebchuk, Financial Times, December 2008 PHD-LEVEL LECTURE
NOTES Mini Course on Financial
Intermediation and Crises (Recent Slides) Mini Course on Information
in Financial Markets (Recent Slides) Lecture on Information
and Fragility in Financial Markets Lecture on Information in Financial Markets and Its Real Effects Lecture on Financial Markets, Information,
and Real Investments Lecture on Short Term Debt
and Incentives in Banks PhD course on
Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions; covers theories of
Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions, and Financial Markets: New Syllabus (with references to lecture notes
above and additional lecture notes on the following topics: Moral Hazard, Theory of the Firm, Capital Structure, Financial Contracting, Corporate Control, Financial Intermediation
and Crises, Financial Markets, Feedback Effects) KEYNOTE
SPEECHES AND PANELS SOME
REPRESENTATIVE SLIDES AI
Trading in Financial Markets: An Emerging Research Agenda Tracing the
Sources of Fragility in the Financial System Information
in Financial Markets and Its Real Effects Financial
Innovation and Tokenization Current Issues in
Finance from Fragility to Technology Amplification
and Fragility in Financial Markets The
Role of Theory in Finance Research FinTech and Decentralized Finance Financial
Fragility and Mutual Funds Trading
Frenzies and Real Effects Corporate
Finance and Financial Markets Financial
Market Feedback: Foundations and New Directions FinTech
Decentralization and Utility Tokens Tradeoffs
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