Shimon Kogan
Dr. Kogan is a visiting Finance faculty at MIT Sloan School of Management and permanent Finance faculty at IDC Herzliya. He was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas at Austin, and Wharton. He held a number of investment management positions and consulted hedge funds. He earned his MBA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and his BA from Tel Aviv University.
His research focuses on behavioral finance with application to asset pricing. He is interested in understanding how information is processed in markets and his approach is interdisciplinary, integrating tools and insights from both psychology and computer science. Dr. Kogan's research appeared in some of the profession's top journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, and the American Economic Review, and he was invited to present his work in leading conferences and universities, such as MIT, Wharton, Harvard, and Yale. His interest in FinTech led him to develop one of the first courses on the topic for business students. The course, which integrates finance, business, and data analytics, was taught at a number of leading business schools including Wharton and McCombs.
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