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George M. Korniotis

George M. Korniotis

Assistant Professor, Finance

(305) 284-5728
Jenkins 514J
gkorniotis@bus.miami.edu


Research Interests

  • Asset Pricing
  • Behavioral Finance
  • Individual Investor Behavior

Selected Publications

Do Behavioral Biases Adversely Affect The Macro-Economy? with Alok Kumar, Review of Financial Studies, 2011, 24(5): 1513 – 1559

Estimating Panel Models with Internal and External Habit Formation, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2010, 28(1): 145-158.

Do Portfolio Distortions Reflect Superior Information or Psychological Biases?, with Alok Kumar; conditionally accepted at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Do Older Investors Make Better Investment Decisions? with Alok Kumar, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming; featured in The New York Times on December 4, 2005, and The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2010

State-Level Business Cycles and Local Return Predictability, with Alok Kumar; forthcoming at the Journal of Finance; featured in New York Times (June 15, 2008) and Minneapolis Star Tribune (June 22, 2008)

Habit Formation, Incomplete Markets, and the Significance of Regional Risk for Expected Returns, Review of Financial Studies, 2008, 21(5): 2139 – 2172


Honors and Awards

  • Provost Research Award, University of Miami, 2011
  • Cowles Prize, Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University, May 2002 and 2000
  • Prize of the President of the Republic of Cyprus for Academic Excellence, June 1998
  • Four Awards of academic excellence, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, 1994–1998
  • Valedictorian, University of Cyprus, June 1998

Teaching and Professional Experience

  • Taught at the University of Notre Dame and served as graduate student teaching assistant at Yale University
  • Served on various committees at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in DC on issues related to bank regulation and supervision
  • Summer intern, International Monetary Fund, 2000

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Yale University, 2003
  • M.Phil., Yale University, 2002
  • M.A., Yale University, 2001
  • B.Sc., valedictorian, University of Cyprus, 1998
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