Matthew Richardson Charles Simon Professor of Applied Financial Economics Director, New York University Salomon Center Joined Stern 1995 Phone: (212) 998-0349 Email:  mrichar0@stern.nyu.edu Office: KMEC 9-60 44 West Fourth Street Suite 9-160 New York, NY 10012-1126

Bio:

Matthew Richardson is the Charles E. Simon Professor of Applied Economics in the Finance Department at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He currently holds the position of the Sidney Homer Director of the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions which is a leading financial research center. Prior to being at NYU, Professor Richardson was an Assistant Professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Professor Richardson has done research in many areas of Finance, including both theoretical and empirical work. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, among other places. He was an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He recently coedited two books on the financial crisis titled Restoring Stability: How to Repair a Failed System, Wiley, 2009. and Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance, Wiley, November 2010, and is a co-author of Guaranteed to Fail:Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance, Princeton University Press, March 2011.

Professor Richardson completed both his bachelor and master degrees in economics concurrently at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his doctor of philosophy in finance from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

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Education:

• PhD, Finance, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, 1989
• MS, Economics, University of California in Los Angeles, 1984
• BA, Economics, University of California in Los Angeles, 1984

Teaching:

• Debt Markets and Instruments
• The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
• Empirical Finance (PhD level)

Research Interests:

• Asset Pricing
• Financial Econometrics
• Financial Regulation

Media Coverage: OpEds

• How To Put An End To Fannie And Freddie (Forbes - 1/10/12)
• Not Even Close (Huffington Post - 12/21/11)
• Euro's fall may doom all (NY Post - 12/7/11)
• What Alexander Hamilton can teach the euro zone (Politico - 12/6/11)
• What to do about U.S. mortgage finance? (Reuters - 9/9/11)
• White Picket Fence? Not So Fast (NY Times - 8/11/10)
• Financial regs are good for growth: We need strong protections to get the economy moving again (NY Daily News - 4/22/10)
• How to reduce risk on Wall Street? Make the banks pay (The Washington Post - 4/11/10)
• Fannie & Freddie: The biggest bailout (NY Post - 3/29/10)
• Obama's bank plan is a start (FT - 1/22/10)
• A Curb on Bank Bonuses Misses the Point (FT - 10/7/09)
• Insolvent banks should feel market discipline (FT - 5/6/09)
• We Can't Subsidize the Banks Forever (WSJ - 5/5/09)
• Concorde's Fate Offers a Lesson for Finance (FT - 4/16/09)
• Give Credit to Timothy Geithner's New Toxic Asset Plan (NY Daily News - 3/25/09)
• There's Virtue in Geithner's Vague Bank Plan (WSJ - 2/18/09)
• Nationalize the Banks! We're all Swedes Now (Washington Post - 2/15/09)
• Formula For Fiscal Fitness (NY Post - 1/16/09)

Media Quotes

• Crisis Altering Wall St. As Stars Begin to Scatter (NY Times - 4/11/09)
• How to Fix the Credit-Ratings Agencies (Time Magazine - 3/23/09)

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