Alex Edmans is professor of finance at

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and the current Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Business at

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. Since 2017 he has been the Managing Editor of the

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, the leading academic finance journal in Europe. He gave the TED tal
What to Trust in a Post-Truth World
on

confirmation bias Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignorin ...

and the importance of being discerning with evidence. In 2021 he was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants.

Education and early career

Edmans received a BA from

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and a PhD from

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as a

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. After two stints at

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, his first academic position was at

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. He was awarded tenure in 2013 and then moved to

as a full professor of finance.

Research

Edmans' research is on corporate governance, executive pay, responsible business, and behavioral finance, and has been cited over 12,500 times. His work covers topics such as the role of blockholders (large shareholders) in disciplining management, the importance of long horizons in executive pay, the link between employee satisfaction and long-term stock returns, and the effect of sentiment on the stock market.Edmans, Alex, Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Alexandre Garel and Ivan Indriawan (2021)
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world.
''Journal of Financial Economics''. His most recent research is on the business case for responsible business, demonstrating that responsibility can create financial as well as social value. He is the co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance, the leading corporate finance textbook (with Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen) from the 14th edition.

Books

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Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
', Cambridge University Press, 2020 *

', McGraw-Hill, 2022

References

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