Andrea Eisfeldt
· Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance and Professor of FinanceUniversity of California, Los Angeles · Finance
Active 2002–2026
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About
Andrea L. Eisfeldt is the Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance and a professor of finance at UCLA Anderson, where she has been teaching since 2010. She spent her first 10 years of her academic career as an assistant professor and then a tenured associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on macroeconomics and finance, including market liquidity, the role of intangibles in asset pricing, bank valuation, and over-the-counter markets. Eisfeldt's work has earned several awards, such as the Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper prize and the Jensen Prize, and she has received research grants from notable institutions. She has also enjoyed practical experience through asset management consulting for Structured Portfolio Management and AQR, applying her expertise in fixed-income and equity portfolio strategies. She is actively involved in the academic community, serving on the boards of the American Finance Association and the Society for Financial Studies Cavalcade, and holds editorial roles at prominent economic journals.
Research topics
- Economics
- Finance
- Business
- Econometrics
- Computer Science
- Keynesian economics
- Actuarial science
- Monetary economics
- Demographic economics
- Industrial organization
Selected publications
National Bureau of Economic Research · 2023-05-01 · 121 citations
reportOpen access1st authorCorrespondingWhat are the effects of recent advances in Generative AI on the value of firms? Our study offers a quantitative answer to this question for U.S. publicly traded companies based on the exposures of their workforce to Generative AI. Our novel firm-level measure of workforce exposure to Generative AI is validated by data from earnings calls, and has intuitive relationships with firm and industry-level characteristics. Using Artificial Minus Human portfolios that are long firms with higher exposures…
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2020 · 81 citations
Macroeconomics (AEJ Macro) is to publish "studies of aggregate fluctuations and growth and the role of policy in that context."The mandate also recognizes that research in macroeconomics interacts closely with and borrows from several other fields, and that AEJ Macro therefore welcomes papers in other fields that make a contribution to macroeconomics.The editors interpret this mandate flexibly-in line with the view that research progress in macroeconomics proceeds from many directions and encomp…
The Deposit Business at Large vs. Small Banks
National Bureau of Economic Research · 2023-11-01 · 32 citations
reportOpen accessThe deposit business differs at large versus small banks.We provide a parsimonious model and extensive empirical evidence supporting the idea that much of the variation in deposit-pricing behavior between large and small banks reflects differences in "preferences and technologies."Large banks offer superior liquidity services but lower deposit rates, and locate where customers value their services.In addition to receiving a lower level of deposit rates on average, customers of large banks exhibi…
National Bureau of Economic Research · 2024-10-01 · 21 citations
reportOpen access1st authorCorrespondingReview of Financial Studies · 2022 · 17 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract We study the effect of dealer exit on prices and quantities in a model of an over-the-counter market featuring a core-periphery network with bilateral trading costs. The model is calibrated using regulatory data on the entire U.S. credit default swap (CDS) market between 2010 and 2013. Prices depend crucially on the risk-bearing capacity of core dealers, yet unlike standard models featuring a dealer sector, we allow for heterogeneity in dealer risk-bearing capacity. This heterogeneity i…
Frequent coauthors
- 88 shared
Andrew Atkeson
University of California, Los Angeles
- 86 shared
Pierre-Olivier Weill
- 26 shared
Timothy Cogley
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- 26 shared
Stephanie Schmitt–Grohé
Center for Economic and Policy Research
- 26 shared
Christina Arellano
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- 26 shared
Joseph P. Kaboski
The Ohio State University
- 26 shared
Jesús Fernández‐Villaverde
- 25 shared
Kristina Kiritchenko
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Awards & honors
- Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper prize (2004)
- Jensen Prize (second place) (2008)
- Smith Breeden First Place Paper award (2013)
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