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Robert Morris Professor of Banking: Dr. Gorton

Gary Gorton

Dr. Gary B. Gorton has been appointed as the Robert Morris Professor of Banking, which was effective July 1, 2003. Dr. Gorton has been a member of Wharton's faculty since 1984 and is a professor of economics in  the School of Arts and Sciences. He also is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a member of the Moody's Investors Services Academic Advisory Panel, and a director of the Research Program on Banks and the Economy for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Dr. Gorton has done research in many areas of finance, including both theoretical and empirical work. Specific research has focused on the role of stock markets and banks, arbitrage pricing, bank capital, bank production of liquidity, loan sales, securitization, bank loan pricing, and bank regulation. Dr. Gorton also works on corporate control issues and asset pricing theory.

His research has been published in The American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Monetary Economics, The Journal of Business, and The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Dr. Gorton is a member of the American Finance Association, the American Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. He has consulted for the U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, various U.S. Federal Reserve Banks, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the Central Bank of Turkey.

The Robert Morris Professorship of Banking was established to support faculty with extensive research in finance. Robert Morris was instrumental in arranging financing for the American Revolution, and is in fact known, as "the financier of the American Revolution." 

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 28, April 6, 2004

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