Ulrike M Malmendier was born on 1973 and is a German economist who is currently a professor of economics and finance at the University of California, Berkeley.
14 Facts About Ulrike Malmendier
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Ulrike Malmendier's work focuses on behavioral economics, corporate finance, and law and economics.
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Ulrike Malmendier has been profiled in The American Magazine and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Ulrike Malmendier worked as an assistant professor of finance at Stanford University from 2002 to 2006.
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Ulrike Malmendier moved to Berkeley in 2006 where she earned tenure in 2008.
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Ulrike Malmendier currently is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and faculty research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor.
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Ulrike Malmendier was named Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, and she received several Citations of Excellence by Emerald for her research.
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Ulrike Malmendier's work focuses on behavioral economics, corporate finance, and law and economics.
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Ulrike Malmendier has conducted extensive research on CEO overconfidence where she found that overconfident CEOs invested too much money in their companies and pursued destructive acquisitions more frequently than other managers.
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Ulrike Malmendier has explored how behavioral biases affect financial decision-making in other contexts.
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Ulrike Malmendier has found that people who lived through the Great Depression remain more frugal throughout their lives, a majority of people overestimate how often they will visit the gym, and that security analysts distort recommendations for profit.
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Ulrike Malmendier has done research into the origin of shareholder companies.
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Ulrike Malmendier has examined an early form of shareholder company in ancient Rome called the societas publicanorum.
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Ulrike Malmendier is married to fellow Berkeley economics professor Stefano DellaVigna.