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Anat Admati

George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Anat Admati is a professor of finance and economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. She has written extensively on information dissemination in financial markets, trading mechanisms, portfolio management, financial contracting, and, most recently, on corporate governance and banking.

Since 2010, Ms. Admati has been active in the policy debate on financial regulation, particularly capital regulation, writing research and policy papers and commentary. She is the co-author of The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong With Banking and What To Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2013).

Ms. Admati received her B.S. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and her M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and has served as a board member of the American Finance Association. She also serves on the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee.

Articles by Anat Admati

The Emperors of Banking Have No Clothes

Why have bankers and their lobbyists been so successful in stymieing efforts to rein in the financial sector?

March 19, 2013