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Peter A.E. Koudijs

Peter A.E. Koudijs
Peter A.E. Koudijs
Associate Professor, Finance
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PeterA.E.Koudijs
Associate Professor of Finance
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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 Associate 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.

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Economics, Finance and Management, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2006-2011
  • Visiting student, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009
  • MSc., Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005-2006
  • Drs. (MA), Economics, University of Utrecht, 1999-2005

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Finance, Stanford GSB, 2016-present
  • Associate Professor of Economics (by courtesy), Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, 2016-present
  • NBER Faculty Research Fellow (Asset Pricing), 2012-present
  • Affiliated Faculty, Stanford Center for International Development, 2016-present
  • Assistant Professor of Finance, Stanford GSB, 2011-2016
  • Assistant Professor of Economics (by courtesy), Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, 2012-2016

Awards and Honors

  • MBA Class of 1969 Faculty Scholar, 2016-2017
  • Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2014-2015

Publications

Journal Articles

For Richer, For Poorer: Banker's Liability and Risk Taking in New England, 1867-1880
Peter A.E. Koudijs, Laura Salisbury, Gurpal Sran. forthcoming Journal of Finance. October 2019.
Limited Liability and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850
Peter A.E. Koudijs, Laura Salisbury. Accepted Journal of Financial Economics. 2019.
Four Centuries of Return Predictability
Benjamin Golez, Peter A.E. Koudijs. Journal of Financial Economics. February 2018, Vol. 127, Issue 2, Pages 248-263.
The Boats That Did Not Sail: Asset Price Volatility in a Natural Experiment
Peter A.E. Koudijs. Journal of Finance. June 2016, Vol. 71, Issue 3, Pages 1185-1226.
Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk Taking in Margin Lending
Peter A.E. Koudijs, Hans-Joachim Voth. American Economic Review. 2016, Vol. 106, Issue 11, Pages 3367-3400.
“Those Who Know Most”: Insider Trading in 18th Century Amsterdam
Peter A.E. Koudijs. Journal of Political Economy. 2015, Vol. 123, Issue 6, Pages 1356-1409.

Working Papers

Marrying for Money: Evidence from the First Wave of Married Women's Property Laws in the U.S.
Peter A.E. Koudijs, Laura Salisbury, April 2016

Teaching

Degree Courses

2019-20

FINANCE 345: History of Financial Crises

Financial crises are as old as financial markets themselves. There are many similarities between historical events. The crisis of 2008, for example, is far from unique. More often than not financial crises are the result of bubbles in certain...

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...

2018-19

FINANCE 345: History of Financial Crises

Financial crises are as old as financial markets themselves. There are many similarities between historical events. The crisis of 2008, for example, is far from unique. More often than not financial crises are the result of bubbles in certain...

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...

2017-18

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...

Stanford University Affiliations

Stanford GSB

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