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K. Geert Rouwenhorst

K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Professor of Corporate Finance; Deputy Director of the International Center for Finance

Geert Rouwenhorst specializes in empirical finance and asset pricing. His research interests include risk and return in international equity markets, commodity investments, and the history of financial innovation. He has held visiting positions at MIT and the IMF. His co-edited book The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets surveys key historical innovations in the field of finance, and was named a book of the year by Barron’s and the Economist.

Education

  • PhD, University of Rochester, 1991
  • MS, University of Rochester, 1988
  • BLaw, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1986
  • MS, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1985

Articles

Investor Interest and the Returns to Commodity Investing

K.G. Rouwenhorst, G. Bhardwaj, and G. Gorton
Journal of Portfolio Management, issue 3, vol. 42, pp. 44-55
2016

Books

Working Papers

The Commodity Risk Premium

K. G. Rouwenhorst
2019

Achievements

  • Roger F. Murray Prize
  • Q-Group Grant on Commodity Research
  • Award for Outstanding Research, International Investment Forum, 1997
  • Frederick Frank Grant for research with an international focus