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Asaf Manela

Assistant Professor of Finance


Area of Expertise:

Asset Pricing, Financial Economics, Option Pricing

Research Interests:

Asset Pricing, Financial Intermediation, Information Economics


Awards/Honors:

  • Fischer Black Fellow, 2011
  • Katherine Dusak Miller Ph. D. Fellowship, 2010
  • The Arnold Zellner Doctoral Prize, 2009
  • Winner of Best Paper Award in Accounting, Economics and Finance, London Business School, 2008
  • CRSP Paper Award, GSB, University of Chicago, 2007
  • Ph. D. in Finance studies fellowship, GSB 2006-2010, University of Chicago
  • Phi Beta Kappa


Asaf  Manela

Asaf Manela earned his PhD in Finance and MBA from the University of Chicago. Manela also holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Boston University. In his dissertation he studies the relationship between the media coverage of drug approvals and stock returns and volume. His primary research interests are in asset pricing, the acquisition and diffusion of information in financial markets, the role of the media in finance, bank runs, learning and portfolio choice.

Asaf Manela's Home Page
Email: amanela@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-9178

MBA 2011, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
PhD 2011, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
BA 2005, Boston University