MFE Welcomes New Faculty
August 28, 2008
Professor Richard G. Sloan will return to academia in January as a new faculty member of the school's Accounting Group. At Barclays, Sloan served as director of accounting research and head of cross-strategy research, playing a leadership role in BGI's equity research team. Sloan's background includes ten years at the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business where he was the Victor L. Bernard PricewaterhouseCoopers Collegiate Professor of Accounting, professor of finance, and director of the school's Financial Research and Trading Center. Sloan's work focuses on the role of accounting information in investment decisions. He won the 2001 Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award for his research on earnings quality. He earned his MS and PhD in business administration from the University of Rochester. Sloan enjoys jogging, yoga, hiking, and travel.
Assistant Professor Marcus Opp joins the Finance Group after receiving his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He studies international finance, corporate finance, information economics, and applied game theory. Opp's work includes the study of firms and contracts in countries where the government and legal systems are dysfunctional. Opp says he chose Haas because of its "collegial and accessible atmosphere." Opp moved to the Bay Area with his new wife, whom he married in August in his native Germany. Opp enjoys basketball, running, and is a 5.5-rated tennis player.
Assistant Professor Alexei Tchistyi joins the Haas Real Estate and Finance groups. Tchistyi's research interests are mortgages, financial innovations, dynamic contracting, agency theory, and corporate finance. Tchistyi, born in Belarus, was a finance professor at NYU's Stern School of Business for the past three years. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tchistyi enjoys soccer, hiking, and an occasional game of chess "for fun."
Joining Haas's Finance Group is Professor Martin Lettau, who spent the past year as a visiting professor of economics at Columbia University. Lettau is also a former assistant Finance professor at Stern and served as senior economist in capital markets for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He received his MA and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. Lettau's research has included stock-return predictability, the effect of macroeconomic volatility on the stock market, and stock dividends.
