Michael Weber, Purdue University
Michael Weber joined the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University in 2025 as Professor of Finance. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Monetary Economics and Asset Pricing groups, Research Affiliate in the Monetary Economics and Fluctuations programme of CEPR, a member of the Macro Finance Society, a Research Professor at Ifo Institute and a research affiliate at the CESifo Research Network.
He is also academic consultant for the Bundesbank, the Colombian Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the Bank of Finland, the Bank for International Settlements, and several other central banks. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School Of Business for 11 years.
His research interests include asset pricing, macroeconomics, international finance, and household finance and has published in leading economics and finance journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.
His research interests include asset pricing, macroeconomics, international finance, and household finance and has published in leading economics and finance journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.
Michael Weber has received four National Science Foundation grants and the Humboldt Professorship, the most highly endowed research prize in Germany. His work on downside risk in currency markets and other asset classes earned the 2013 AQR Insight Award.
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