Benjamin Golez

Benjamin Golez is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing. His research aims to better understand how and why prices of financial assets move over time and across countries. He has analyzed historical data from the beginning of modern financial markets in 17th-century Amsterdam. Currently, he is exploring the role of biased beliefs and the impact of FED announcements on prices of long- and short-duration assets. He also analyzes the impact of investor disagreement and media reporting on stock price valuations. His work appeared in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Management Science, and has been presented at the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the National Bureau of Economic Research Meeting, and the News and Finance Conference at the Columbia University. His work was also featured in the Financial Times and Bloomberg Business Week. Benjamin teaches courses on investments and financial derivatives to undergraduate and MBA students. He received a Ph.D. and MSc. degree in Finance from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).