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Finance

Associate Professor of Finance

Co-Director, Guthrie Center

Portrait of Konstantin W. Milbradt, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

Professor Milbradt's research interests are in financial economics, specifically in how financial frictions affect asset prices, the macroeconomy, corporate decisions, and mortgage markets. In his recent work, he theoretically and empirically investigates how heterogeneity of homeowner's prepayment decisions affects prices in the conforming mortgage market and monetary policy pass-through, as well as how different contract designs would change these prices. Professor Milbradt holds a PhD from Princeton University (2009) and a BA from Oxford University (2003). Before joining Kellogg School of Management (2013), he served as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

About Konstantin
Research interests
  • Financial Economics
  • Liquidity
  • Asset Pricing & Corporate Finance under Financial Frictions
  • Ph.D., 2009, Economics, Princeton University, Princeton University
    B.A., 2003, Economics and Management, Oxford University, Oxford University
  • Associate Professor of Finance, Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2013-present
    Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance, MIT, Sloan School of Management, 2009-2013
  • Faculty Research Fellow (Asset Pricing), National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013-present
  • Best paper award Utah Winter Finance Conference "A model of safe asset determination"
    Best paper award Utah Winter Finance Conference "Endogenous Liquidity and Defaultable Bonds"
    Best Paper Prize, Utah Winter Finance Conference
    Best Paper Prize, Utah Winter Finance Conference
  • Associate Editor, Review of Finance, 2017
    Referee, American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Management Science, Econometrica, Review of Economics Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Financial Studies, 2016

Corporate Finance III (FINC-586-3)

This course provides a theoretical and empirical treatment of major topics in empirical corporate finance, including financial contracting; banking, securitization, and financial regulation: household finance and macroeconomics; entrepreneurship and venture capital.