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Lauren Cohen 

Associate Professor of Finance & Marvin Bower Faculty Fellow

Harvard Business School

Baker Library 273

Soldiers Field

Boston, MA 02163

Phone: 617.495.3888

Email: lcohen@hbs.edu   

 

 

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Publications

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

1.)    Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market (with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy), 2007

                Journal of Finance 62, 2061-2096.

 

·         Winner of the Smith Breeden Prize, Distinguished Paper, for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance 2007


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.)    Economic Links and Predictable Returns (with Andrea Frazzini), 2008

                Journal of Finance, 63, 1977-2011.

Appendix containing results on supplier momentum and analyst revisions

 

·         Winner of the Smith Breeden Prize, Distinguished Paper, for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance 2008

·         Winner of Emerald Citation of Excellence Award 2009

·         Winner of First Prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition 2006

·         Winner of BSI Gamma Foundation Grant, Firm Characteristics and Investment Management 2006  


 

3.)    The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns (with Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy), 2008

Journal of Political Economy, 116, 951-979.

 

·         Winner of Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007


 

4.)    Shorting Demand and Predictability of Returns (with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy), 2009,

                Journal of Investment Management, 7, 36-52.


 

5.)    Loyalty Based Portfolio Choice, 2009

                Review of Financial Studies, 22, 1213-1245.


 

6.)    Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients (with Breno Schmidt), 2009

                Journal of Finance, 64, 2125-2152.

Appendix

 

·         Winner of Society of Quantitative Analysts Award, Best Paper in Quantitative Investments, Western Finance Association 2007

·         Winner of Barclays Global Investors Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association 2006


 

7.)    Sell Side School Ties (with Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy), 2010

                Journal of Finance, 65, 1409-1437.

Appendix containing results on All-Star status and long-horizon returns

 

·         Winner of the Smith Breeden Prize, Distinguished Paper, for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance 2010


 

 

 

8.)    The Power of Alumni Networks (with Christopher Malloy), 2010,

              Harvard Business Review 88, no. 10.


 

9.)    Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors (with Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy), 2011

         Management Science, forthcoming.

Appendix


 

10.)   Complicated Firms (with Dong Lou), 2011

         Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.

 

·       Winner of First Prize, Crowell Memorial Award for best paper in quantitative investments, PanAgora Asset Management 2011

·       Winner of the Best Paper Prize of the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Forum 2010

·       Winner of First Prize, ISE 25th Anniversary Best Paper Competition 2010

·       Winner of Paul Woolley Centre Academic Grant, 2010


 

11.) Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing? (with Joshua Coval and Christopher Malloy), 2011

                Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.

 

·       Testimony to Congress, September 29, 2010

 


 

12.) Decoding Inside Information (with Christopher Malloy and Lukasz Pomorski), August 2011

               Journal of Finance, forthcoming.

 

·         Winner of First Prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition 2010

·         Winner of Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Grant 2009

 

 

Working Papers

 


 

1.)       Friends in High Places (with Christopher Malloy), August 2011


 

2.)       Misvaluing Innovation (with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy), April 2011

 

 


 

3.)       Legislating Stock Prices (with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy), November 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

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