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Peter A.E. Koudijs
Peter Koudijs
Assistant Professor, Finance
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PeterA.E.Koudijs
Assistant Professor of Finance
Assistant Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences
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Finance

Research Statement

Peter Koudijs specializes in the history of financial markets. In his research Peter studies relevant historical cases which yield important lessons for the world of today. In recent work he has used a unique natural experiment from the 18th century to study the role of news in financial markets and the impact of insider trading. In other work he looks at the impact of fire sales on asset prices, the functioning of repo markets, and the foundations of sovereign debt markets and international borrowing.

Bio

Peter Koudijs is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches History of Financial Crises in the MBA program. He joined the GSB in August 2011. Peter received a Bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in Economics from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He earned a PhD degree, summa cum laude, in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain in 2011. Peter has obtained various grants and fellowships from the European Union, the Economic History Association and different Dutch and Spanish scholarship programs.

Awards and Honors

  • Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2014-2015

Publications

Journal Articles

The Boats That Did Not Sail: Asset Price Volatility in a Natural Experiment
Peter A.E. Koudijs. Journal of Finance (forthcoming). 2014.
Those who know most: Insider trading in 18th c. Amsterdam
Peter A.E. Koudijs. Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming). 2014.

Working Papers

Four centuries of return predictability | PDF
Benjamin Golez, Peter A.E. Koudijs, January 192015
Those who know most: Insider trading in 18th c. Amsterdam | PDF
Peter A.E. Koudijs, September 292014
The Boats That Did Not Sail: Asset Price Volatility in a Natural Experiment | PDF
Peter A.E. Koudijs, August 162014
Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk Taking in Margin Lending | PDF
Peter A.E. Koudijs, Hans-Joachim Voth, February 272014

Courses Taught

Degree Courses

2015-16

FINANCE 345: History of Financial Crises

Financial crises are as old as financial markets themselves. There are many similarities between historical events. The recent credit crisis, for example, is far from unique. More often than not financial crises are the result of bubbles in...

FINANCE 621: Financial Markets II

This course continues F620 and covers a number of main concepts in market microstructure. Among the topics that are covered are (i) Rational Expectations models and their foundations (ii) strategic trading models (iii) models of market and...

2014-15

FINANCE 345: History of Financial Crises

Financial crises are as old as financial markets themselves. There are many similarities between historical events. The recent credit crisis, for example, is far from unique. More often than not financial crises are the result of bubbles in...

FINANCE 621: Financial Markets II

This course continues F620 and covers a number of main concepts in market microstructure. Among the topics that are covered are (i) Rational Expectations models and their foundations (ii) strategic trading models (iii) models of market and...

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December 11, 2014
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writtenA Brief History of Financial Bubbles
November 24, 2014
Economies all over the world have strained and burst throughout history.
writtenPeter Koudijs: Risk Analysis or Risk Paralysis?
December 2, 2013
A lesson on post-crisis financial stress disorder from 18th century Amsterdam.

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