Alexander Zentefis
Assistant Professor of Finance
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Professor Zentefis does research on institutions, financial intermediation, and corporate culture. His recent research shows how low equity in the banking sector raises bank market power and disrupts the transmission of monetary policy to the real economy. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD from the University of Chicago.
Education
- PhD, The University of Chicago
- MS, Washington University in St. Louis
- BS, Washington University in St. Louis
Selected Works
Articles
- Self-fulfilling Asset Prices
A. K. Zentefis
Review of Asset Pricing Studies
Forthcoming - Corporate Culture
G. G. Gorton, J. Grennan, and A. K. Zentefis
Annual Review of Financial Economics
Forthcoming - Bank Net Worth and Frustrated Monetary Policy
A. K. Zentefis
Journal of Financial Economics
Volume 138, Issue 3, pp 687-699
2020
Working Papers
- Gerrymandering and the Limits of Representative Democracy
K. H. Yang and A. K. Zentefis
2022
Bank Access Across America
J. Sakong and A. K. Zentefis
2022
Efficient Market Structures Under Incomplete Information
K. H. Yang and A. K. Zentefis
2022
- Corporate Culture as a Theory of the Firm
G. B. Gorton and A. K. Zentefis
2021 - Arbitrage and Beliefs
P. Khorrami and A. K. Zentefis
2022 - Social Progress and Corporate Culture
G. B. Gorton and A. K. Zentefis
2022
Risk-taking under a Punishing Bailout
A. K. Zentefis
2021
Achievements
- AQR Top Finance Graduate Award, 2017
- John Leusner Fellowship, 2017
- WFA-CFAR Best Finance PhD Paper Award, 2016
- Fischer Black Fellowship, 2016