BRETT GREEN

Professor of Finance
Olin Business School
Washington University in St. Louis

I am an economist and a Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School. My areas of expertise include  financial economics, corporate finance, contract theory, and microeconomic theory. 

In my research, I study the behavior of strategic agents in dynamic settings. I am particularly interested in the role of learning in markets with information frictions, with a focus on venture capital, private equity, real estate, and securities markets.  Recently, I have been working on how to design contracts to make credit markets more efficient in developing countries. I also dabble in sports economics.

Prior to joining Olin, I was a tenured associate professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. I earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a M.S. in financial mathematics from Stanford University, and a bachelor's degree of science in economics and engineering from Duke University.

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I am currently serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics.