Robert W. Vishny

Robert Ward Vishny is an American economist, mathematician and university professor.

Career, teaching and research

Vishny studied Witrtschaftswissenschaften, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Michigan. In 1981 he graduated with the degree Baccalaureus Artium one with distinction. He then continued his studies at Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology fort, where he graduated in September 1985 as a Ph.D..

From the autumn of 1985 Vishny worked as Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago before he was appointed four years later at the University as a full professor. In 1993 he received the Eric J. Gleacher - - Chair of Finance, a position he held until the summer of 2005. As a result, he focused on one hand on his management duties at the 1994 he co-founded investment company LSV Asset Management, while on the other hand, studied psychology at Northwestern University. Here he completed his studies in 2008 with a Master of Arts degree in psychological counseling from. In January 2010, he returned to the University of Chicago, where he took over the Myron S. Scholes Chair of Finance.

Vishnys work focuses on behavioral economics, and public finance aspects of institutional economics. In particular, he was committed to corporate governance and market-based control mechanisms, privatization and the role of the state in the economic area, investors expectations and moods as well as the arbitrage theory and its limitations apart. Together with Kevin M. Murphy and Andrei Shleifer, he was instrumental in the development of the as prepared by the Austrian Paul Rosenstein - Rodan Big Push model, describes strategic development in developing countries by promoting Schube.

In addition to his academic activities, Vishny also engaged in various institutions. Between 1991 and 1998 he headed the Corporate Finance Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Between 1988 and 1999 he also served as an editorial member of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics. As a member of the American Finance Association, he led between 1994 and 1996 as director of the fate of the organization. Since 2002 he is member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.