Curriculum Vitae
Kenneth
A. Froot
www.people.hbs.edu/kfroot
Boston, MA 02163 Cambridge,
MA 02138
(617)
495-6677 (617)
868-3900
Education:
University of
Academic
Positions:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Other Academic
Positions:
National Bureau of Economic Research. Chairman, NBER Project on Insurance. Research Associate (1990-present), Faculty
Research Fellow (1987-1990). Program
affiliations: International Financial Studies; Asset Pricing; Corporate
Finance; Behavior Finance Working Group; Monetary Economics.
Selected Other
Positions:
FDO Partners, LLC, Founder
and Partner (1997-present).
State Street Associates,
Founding Partner (1999-present).
Merrill Lynch Mutual
Funds, Independent Director (2005-2007).
BlackRock Mutual
Funds, Independent Director (2007-present).
Goldman Sachs, &
Co., Standard
and Poor’s, Member, GSCI Policy Review Committee (1993-present).
Oneshield,
Member, Strategic Advisory Board (2000-present).
Export-Import Bank of
the United States, Economic Advisory Council, member
(1993-1995).
Federal Reserve Board of Governors,
Consultant, International Finance Division (1992, 1986, and 1985).
World Bank,
Consultant, Country Policy Depart. (1984-1985),
International Finance Division (1988-1989).
Council of Economic Advisers,
Executive Office of the U.S. President. Staff Economist for International Trade
and Finance (1983-1984).
International Monetary Fund,
Consultant, Research Department (1991, 1989, 1983).
Honors,
Grants and Fellowships:
Institute
for Quantitative Research in Finance Grant (1992, 1996).
Term
member, Council on Foreign Relations (1991-1996).
Alfred
P. Sloan Research Grant (with R. Dornbusch and P. Krugman) (1988-1991).
John
Olin Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (1988-1989).
Ford
International Career Development Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1987-1990).
Institute
for Quantitative Research in Finance Grant (1987).
Center
for Economics and Monetary Affairs Research Award (1987).
Alfred
P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellow (1985-1986).
Refereeing
and Editorships:
American Economic Review; Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics; Econometrica; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of Economic Studies; Journal of International Economics; Review of Financial Studies; Journal of the American Statistical Association; Journal of Monetary Economics; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of International Money and Finance; Journal of Development Economics; International Economic Review; European Economic Review; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Macroeconomics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Financial Management; Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting; Review of International Economics; Quarterly Review of Economics and Business; University of Chicago Press; MIT Press; Institute for International Economics; Bulletin of Economic Research.
Head
Advisory Board Member,
Advisory
Board Member, International Journal of Finance Education (2001-present).
Advisory
Board Member, Journal of Risk Finance (1999-present).
Advisory
Board Member, The Emerging Markets Review
(1999-present).
Advisory
Board Member, The Financier (1998-present).
Advisory
Board Member, The Arbitrageur (1998-present).
Advisory
Board Member, International Finance (1997-present).
Advisory
Board Member, International Finance
Abstracts (1996-present).
Editorial
Board Member, Finance Letters (2003-present).
Editor,
Journal of International Financial
Management and Accounting (1992-present).
Associate
Editor, Journal of International
Economics (1991-1998).
Associate
Editor, Finance Letters (2002-present).
Academic
Journal Articles:
“On
the Pricing of Intermediated Risks: Theory and Application to Catastrophe
Reinsurance,” with P. O’Connell, Special Issue: Dynamics of Insurance Markets: Structure,
Conduct, and Performance in the 21st Century, Journal of Banking
and Finance 32, no. 1 (January 2008):
69-85. (Revised from NBER Working
Paper no. 6011, April 1997,
“Institutional
Portfolio Flows and International Investments,” with T. Ramadorai, Review of Financial Studies 21, no. 2
(April 2008): 937-971. (Formerly “The Information Content of International
Portfolio Flows,” revised from NBER Working Paper no. 8472, September 2001,
Harvard Business School Working Paper no. 03-006, 2002, revised December 2005.)
“Risk
Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and
Reinsurers,” Journal of Risk and
Insurance 74, no. 2 (June 2007): 273-299.
(Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 10184,
“Decomposing
the Persistence of International Equity Flows,”
with J. Tjornhom Donohue, Finance Research
Letters, Volume 1, Issue 3 (September 2004): 154-170. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 9079,
July 2002,
“Currency
Returns, Intrinsic Value, and Institutional Investor Flows,” with T.
Ramadorai, Journal of Finance 60, no.
3 (June 2005): 1535-1566. (Revised from
NBER Working Paper no. 9101, August 2002.
Revised,
“The
Persistence of Emerging Market Equity Flows,” with J. Donohue, Emerging
Markets Review 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 338-364. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 9241,
“The
Pricing of Event Risks with Parameter Uncertainty,” with S. Posner,
“The
Market for Catastrophe Risk: A Clinical Examination,” Journal of Financial Economics 60, nos. 2-3 (May/June 2001): 529-571. Reprinted in The Economics of Natural
Hazards, part of the International Library of Critical Writings in
Economics series edited by M. Blaug,
“The
Portfolio Flows of International Investors,” with P. O’Connell and M.
Seasholes, Journal of Financial Economics
59, no. 2 (February 2001): 151-193.
Summarized in the NBER Reporter, 2000.
Reprinted in International Capital Markets, edited by R. Stulz
and A. Karolyi,
“The
Evolving Market for Catastrophe Event Risk,” Risk Management and Insurance Review 2, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 1-28.
Reprinted in Risk Management: The State of the Art, edited by
“How
are Stock Prices Affected by the Location of Trade?,” with
“A
New Approach to Capital Budgeting for Financial Institutions,” with J.
Stein, Journal of Applied Corporate
Finance 11, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 59-69.
“Risk
Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial
Institutions: An Integrated Approach,” with J. Stein, Journal of Financial Economics 47, no. 1 (January 1998): 55-82. Winner
of the 1998 Journal of Financial
Economics Jensen First Prize for Corporate Finance and Organizations.
(Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 5403, January 1996 and Harvard Business
School Working Paper no. 96-030, December 1995.)
“New
Trading Practices and Short-Run Market Efficiency,” with A. Perold, Journal of Futures Markets 15, no. 7 (October 1995):
731-766. (Revised from NBER Working
Paper no. 3498, October 1990.)
“Hedging
Portfolios with Real Assets,” Journal
of Portfolio Management 21, no. 4 (Summer 1995): 60-77. (Revised from Harvard Business School Working
Paper no. 95-045, September 1993.)
“Conditional
Mean-Variance Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market,” with C. Engel, J.
Frankel and T. Rodrigues, revised as “Tests of Conditional Mean-Variance
Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market,” Journal
of Empirical Finance 2, no. 1 (March 1995): 3-18. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 2890,
March 1989 and (revised) 4292, March 1993.)
“Risk
Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies,” with
D. Scharfstein and J. Stein, Journal of
Finance 48, no. 5 (December 1993): 1629-1658. Reprinted in RAE-Revista de Administração de
Empresas, Management Journal of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP),
“Herd
on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Model with Short-Term
Speculation,” with D. Scharfstein and J. Stein, Journal of Finance 47, no. 4 (September 1992): 1461-1484. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 3250,
February 1990.)
“Intrinsic
Bubbles: The Case of Stock Prices,” with M. Obstfeld, American Economic Review 81, no. 5 (December 1991): 1189-1214. Reprinted in Speculation and Financial Markets,
edited by M. Taylor and L. Gallagher,
“Exchange-rate
Dynamics under Stochastic Regime Shifts: A Unified Approach,” with M.
Obstfeld, Journal of International
Economics 31 (November 1991): 203-230.
(Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 2835, February 1989.)
“Exchange
Rates and Foreign Direct Investment: An Imperfect Capital Markets Approach,”
with J. Stein, Quarterly Journal of
Economics 106, no. 4 (November 1991): 1191-1217. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 2914,
March 1989.)
“Stochastic
Process Switching: Some Simple Solutions,” with M. Obstfeld, Econometrica 59, no. 1 (January 1991):
241-250. Reprinted in Exchange Rates and Currency Bonds, edited by P. Krugman and M. Miller,
“Anomalies:
Foreign Exchange,” with R. Thaler, Journal
of Economic Perspectives 4, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 179-192. Reprinted in Current Issues in the
International Economy: A Reader, edited by L. Goldberg and M.
Klein,
“Chartists,
Fundamentalists, and Trading in the Foreign Exchange Market,” with J.
Frankel, American Economic Review 80 (May 1990): 181-185.
Reprinted in New Developments in Exchange Rate Economics, edited
by L. Sarno and M. Taylor,
“LDC
Debt: Forgiveness, Indexation, and Investment Incentives,” with D.
Scharfstein and J. Stein, Journal of
Finance 44, no. 5 (December 1989): 1335-1350. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 2541,
March 1988.)
“On
the Consistency of Short-Run and Long-Run Exchange Rate Expectations,” with
T. Ito, Journal of International Money
and Finance 8, no. 4 (December 1989): 487-510. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 2577,
May 1988.)
“Consistent
Covariance Matrix Estimation with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Heteroskedasticity
in Cross-Sectional Financial Data,” Journal
of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 24, no. 3 (September 1989): 333-355. (Revised from NBER Technical Working Paper
no. 62.)
“Exchange
Rate Pass-Through When Market Share Matters,” with P. Klemperer, American Economic Review 79, no. 4
(September 1989): 637-654. (Revised from
NBER Working Paper no. 2542, October 1989.)
“New
Hope for the Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Interest Rates,”
Journal of Finance 44, no. 2 (June
1989): 283-305. Reprinted in Behavioral Finance, edited by H.
Shefrin, in International Library of
Critical Writings in Financial Economics, edited by R. Roll,
“Buybacks,
Exit Bonds, and the Optimality of Debt and Liquidity Relief,” International Economic Review 30, no. 1
(February 1989): 49-70. Translated into
Spanish in Estudios Economicos 4
(July 1989): 31-60. (Revised from NBER
Working Paper no. 2675, July 1988.)
“Forward
Discount Bias: Is it an Exchange Risk Premium?,” with J. Frankel, Quarterly Journal of Economics 104, no.
1 (February 1989): 139-161. Reprinted in
Advances in Behavioral Finance, edited by R. Thaler,
“Credibility,
Real Interest Rates, and the Optimal Speed of Trade Liberalization,” Journal of International Economics 25
(1988): 71-93. (Revised from NBER Working
Paper no. 2358, May 1987.)
“Using
Survey Data to Test Standard Propositions Regarding Exchange Rate Expectations,”
with J. Frankel, American Economic Review
77, no. 1 (March 1987): 133-153.
(Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 1672.)
“Understanding
the U.S. Dollar in the Eighties: The Expectations of Chartists and
Fundamentalists,” with J. Frankel, Economic
Record, Special Issue (December 1986): 24-38. Reprinted in Exchange Rate Economics, vol. I, edited by R.
MacDonald and M. Taylor, International
Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward
Elgar Publishing, U.K, 1992.
“Short-term
and Long-term Expectations of the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate: Evidence from
Survey Data,” with J. Frankel, Journal
of the Japanese and International Economies 1 (September 1987):
249-274. (Revised from NBER Working
Paper no. 2216, April 1987.)
“The
Dollar as an Irrational Speculative Bubble: A Tale of Fundamentalists and
Chartists,” with J. Frankel, Marcus
Wallenberg Papers in International Finance 1 (1986): 27-55. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 1854,
March 1986.)
Books:
The Financing of Catastrophe Risk, edited
by K. Froot,
The Global Financial System: A Functional
Perspective, with D. Crane, S. Mason,
A. Perold, R. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. Sirri, and P. Tufano, Boston: Harvard
Business School Press, 1995.
The Transition in Eastern Europe, edited by O. Blanchard, K. Froot
and J. Sachs,
The Transition in Eastern Europe, edited by O. Blanchard, K. Froot
and J. Sachs,
Foreign Direct Investment, edited by K. Froot,
Market-Based Debt Reduction for Developing
Countries: Principles and Prospects, with S. Claessens, I. Diwan,
P. Krugman,
Articles
in Books and Non-Academic Journals:
“Bank
Capital and Risk Management: Issues for
Banks and Regulators,” International Financial Risk Institute, Research
Paper No 8, April 2001.
“The
Limited Financing of Catastrophe Risk: An
Overview,” in The Financing of
Catastrophe Risk, edited by K.
Froot,
“The
Pricing of US Catastrophe Reinsurance,” with P. O’Connell, in The Financing of Catastrophe Risk, edited by K. Froot,
“The
Emerging Asset Class: Insurance Risk,” with B. Murphy, A. Stern, and S.
Usher, in The Marsh & McLennan Companies Quarterly Viewpoint XXIV, 3, Summer 1995, 19-28. (Was originally Special Report from Guy
Carpenter and Company, Inc., July 1995), reprinted with permission © Guy
Carpenter & Company, Inc.
“Perspectives
on PPP and Long-Run Real Exchange Rates,” with K. Rogoff, in Handbook of International Economics, Volume 3, Elsevier Science
Publishers, B.V., North Holland Press, 1995, Chapter 32, 1647-1688. (Revised from
“Incentive
Problems in Financial Contracting: Impacts on Corporate Financing, Investment,
and Risk Management Policies,” in The
Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective, edited by K.
Froot, D. Crane, S. Mason, A. Perold, R. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. Sirri and P.
Tufano, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995, Chapter 7, 225-261. (Revised from
“Interest
Allocation Rules, Financing Patterns, and the Operations of US Multinationals,”
in The Effects of International Taxation on Multinational Corporations, edited by M. Feldstein, J. Hines and G. Hubbard,
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 277-307. Featured in The NBER Digest, November 1994. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 4924.)
“The
Tax Treatment of Interest and the Operations of U.S. Multinationals,” with
J. Hines, in Taxing Multinational Corporations, edited by M. Feldstein, J. Hines and G. Hubbard,
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 81-93.
“Securities
Transaction Taxes: What about International Experiences and Migrating Markets?,”
with J. Campbell, in Transaction Taxes: False Hopes and Unintended Consequences,
“A
Framework for Risk Management,” with D. Scharfstein and J. Stein, Harvard Business Review 72,
(November-December 1994): 59-71.
Reprinted in Journal of Applied
Corporate Finance 7, Fall 1994,
22-32. Reprinted in Marsh & McLennan
Companies' ViewPoint 24, Spring 1995,
21-37. Also reprinted in Corporate Risk: Strategies and Management,
edited by G. Brown and D. Chew,
“International
Experiences with Securities Transaction Taxes,” with J. Campbell, in The Internationalization of Equity Markets,
edited by J. Frankel, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994,
277-308. Featured in The NBER Digest, May 1994. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 4587,
December 1993.)
“On
the Speculative Efficiency of the Foreign Exchange Market,” Cuadernos Economicos de ICE, March 1993,
7-30.
“Foreign
Direct Investment in Eastern Europe: Some Economic Considerations,” in The Transition in Eastern Europe, Volume
2 Restructuring, edited by O. Blanchard, K. Froot, and J. Sachs,
“Introduction
and Overview: The Transition Economies
of Eastern Europe” with O. Blanchard and J. Sachs, in The Transition in Eastern Europe, edited by O. Blanchard, K. Froot,
and J. Sachs, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994, 1-18.
“Trading
Blocs and the Incentive to Protect: Implications for Japan and East Asia,”
with D. Yoffie, in Regionalism and
Rivalry:
“U.S.-Japan
Trade Today,” in U.S.-Japan Economic Forum, edited by
M. Feldstein and Y. Kosai, National Bureau of Economic Research and Japan
Center for Economic Research, 2, 1992.
“Strategic
Trade Policies in a Tripolar World,” with D. Yoffie, The International Spectator XXVI, No. 3 (July-September
1991): 3-28. Reprinted in The Political
Economy of International Cooperation, NIRA Research Output, Vol. 5,
No. 1 (1992).
“Shareholder
Trading Practices and Corporate Investment Horizons,” with A. Perold and J.
Stein, Journal of Applied Corporate
Finance 5, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 42-58.
“The
EMS, the EMU, and the Transition to a Common Currency,” with K. Rogoff, in Macroeconomics Annual 1991, edited by
O. Blanchard and S. Fischer, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, 269-327. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 3684,
January 1992.)
“U.S.-Japan
Trade Developments,” in Kinyu Journal, (part I) 9, 1991, 55-61, (part
II) 10, 1991, 45-49.
“Exchange
Rate Forecasting Techniques, Survey Data, and Implications for the Foreign
Exchange Market,” with J. Frankel, in International
Business Reader, edited by D. Duta,
“Japanese
Foreign Direct Investment,” in U.S.-Japan Economic Forum, Vol. 1,
edited by M. Feldstein and Y. Kosai, National Bureau of Economic Research and
Japan Center for Economic Research, 1991.
(Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 3737, June 1991.)
“New
Trading Practices and the Short-Run Predictability of the S&P500,” with J.
Gammill and A. Perold, in Market Volatility and Investor Confidence, Report to the Board of
Directors of the
“Multinational
Corporations, Exchange Rates, and Direct Investment,” in International Policy Coordination and Exchange
Rate Fluctuations, edited by W. Branson, J. Frenkel and M. Goldstein,
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990, 307-346.
“Chartists,
Fundamentalists, and the Demand for Dollars,” with J. Frankel, in Private Behavior and Government Policy in
Interdependent Economies, edited
by A. Courakis and M. Taylor, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990,
73-128. Reprinted in Greek Economic Review 10 (June 1988):
49-102. Translated into “Chartistas,
fundamentalistas y la demanda de dólares,” in Cuadernos Economicos de ICE, 1988 (Número 38), 195-242.
“Adjustment
of the
“Explaining
the Demand for Dollars: International Rates of Return, and the Expectations of
Chartists and Fundamentalists,” with J. Frankel, in Macroeconomics, Agriculture,
and the Exchange Rate, edited by R. Chambers and P.
Paarlberg,
Book
Reviews and Miscellaneous Publications:
“Testimony
of Kenneth A. Froot Before the
“Comment
on: Regional Patterns in the Law of One
Price,” in The Regionalization of the
World Economy, edited by J.
Frankel,
“Comment
on: The Effects of Outbound Foreign Direct Investment on the Domestic Capital
Stock,” in International Corporate
Taxation, edited by J. Hines,
“Comment
on: Economic Crises: Necessary for Trade Liberalization and Fiscal Reform?,” in
Stabilization, Economic Reform and Growth,
edited by R. Dornbusch and S. Edwards, Chicago:
“Comment
on: Exchange Rates and Corporate Strategic Management,” in Y. Amihud and R.
Levich, Exchange Rates and Corporate Performance,
“Roundtable
on U.S. Risk Capital and Innovation (With a Look at Eastern Europe),” with
G. Baty, W. Bygrave, D. Chew, et al., Journal
of Applied Corporate Finance 4, no. 4 (Winter 1992): 48-78.
“Comment
on: The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of
1986 on Foreign Direct Investment to and from the United States” in Do Taxes Matter?: The
Impact of the Tax Reform
Act of 1986, edited by J.
Slemrod,
“Asset
Price Expectations: A Summary,” NBER Reporter, Spring 1989.
“Do
the Secondary Markets Believe in Life After Debt?: A Comment on Hajivassiliou,”
in Dealing with the Debt Crisis,
edited by I. Husain and I. Diwan, Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1989, 293.
“Labor
Market Distortions as a Case for Export Subsidies: Comment on Katz and
Summers,” in Trade Policies for International Competitiveness, edited by R. Feenstra,
Rapporteur
for International Economic Cooperation, edited by M. Feldstein,
“How
Open is the U.S. Economy?: A Review,” edited by R. W. Hafer, Journal of International Economics 23 (1987): 389-391.
Unpublished
Papers:
“Equity Style Returns and Institutional Investor
Flows,” with M. Teo,
“Determinants
of Optimal Currency Hedging,” with A. Perold,
“The Law of One Price
Over 700 Years,” with M. Kim and K. Rogoff, Harvard Business School Working
Paper no. 95-086, May 1995, NBER Working Paper no. 5132, May 1995.
“Interest
Allocation Rules and the Changing Cost of Debt Finance,” with J. Hines,
“Losing
Interest: Interest Allocation Rules and the Cost of Debt Finance,” with J.
Hines,
“Currency
Hedging Over Long Horizons,”
“Government
Consumption and the Real Exchange Rate: The Empirical Evidence,” with K.
Rogoff,
“Short
Rates and Expected Asset Returns,” NBER Working Paper no. 3247, May 1990.
“Tests
of Excess Forecast Volatility in the Foreign Exchange and Stock Markets,” NBER
Working Paper no. 2362, 1987.
“Capital
Flight, Policy Credibility, and the Option Value of Foreign Exchange,” with S.
van Wijnbergen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1986.
“Currency
Values in a Continuous Time Capital Asset Pricing Model Driven by Asset
Supplies,”
Cases
and Notes:
“Measuring
Investment Performance,” case no. 208-110,
“Nephila: Innovation in Catastrophe Risk Reinsurance,”
case no. 206-130,
“Geeli,”
case no. 206-105,
“Teaching
Note to Geeli,” no. 206-106,
“Geeli,”
spreadsheet supplement 206-710,
“UAL,
2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy,” case
no. 205-090,
“UAL,
2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy,”
spreadsheet supplement 205-709,
“Pacific Salmon Company, Inc,” case no.