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Kent Daniel

Jean-Marie Eveillard/First Eagle Investment Management Professor of Business
Finance Division
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Office: 766 Kravis
Phone: (212) 8544679
E-mail: [email protected]
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Curriculum Vitae

Kent Daniel is the Jean-Marie Eveillard/First Eagle Investment Management Professor of Business in the Finance Division at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. From 1996 to 2006, Kent was at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was the John and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Finance (on leave from 2004-2006). Previously, he served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of British Columbia.

Between 2004 and 2010, Kent was with the Quantitative Investment Strategies group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. In 2005, he became a managing director and head of the QIS equity research effort. He became a co-chief investment officer in 2009.

Kent's academic research, both theoretical and empirical, has been primarily in the areas of behavioral finance and asset pricing. In addition to other awards, his academic papers received the 1997 and 1999 Smith-Breeden awards for the best paper in the Journal of Finance. His papers have been reprinted in several books. He also received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award for 1996-1997 and 2000-2001 at the Kellogg School.

Kent is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Finance, as a director of the American Finance Association, and as a director of the Western Finance Association. Kent received a B.S. with honors in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1981 and an M.B.A. from UCLA in 1987. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from UCLA in 1992.

Education
Joined CBS
2010

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Type
Journal Article
Daniel, Kent, Robert B. Litterman, and Gernot Wagner
. “Declining CO₂ price paths.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(October 01, 2019).doi:
10.1073/pnas.1905755116
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Type
Journal Article
Daniel, Kent, Robert Hodrick, and Zhongjin Lu
. “The Carry Trade: Risks and Drawdowns.”
Critical Finance Review
vol.
6
, (January 01, 2017):
211
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262
.
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Type
Journal Article
Daniel, Kent and David Hirshleifer
. “Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading.”
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol.
29
, (January 01, 2015):
61
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88
.
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Type
Journal Article
Daniel, Kent and Sheridan Titman
. “Testing Factor-Model Explanations of Market Anomalies.”
Critical Finance Review
vol.
1
, (January 01, 2012):
103
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139
.
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Type
Journal Article
Daniel, Kent
. “Anatomy of a Crisis.”
CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly
vol.
26
, (January 01, 2009):
11
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21
.
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Type
Working Paper
Daniel, Kent, Alexander Klos, and Simon Rottke
. Overconfidence, Information Diffusion, and Mispricing Persistence. January 01, 2020.
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Type
Working Paper
Daniel, Kent, Lira Mota, Simon Rottke, and Tano Santos
. The Cross-Section of Risk and Return. November 04, 2019.
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Type
Working Paper
Daniel, Kent, Ravi Jagannathan, and Soohun Kim
. A Hidden Markov Model of Momentum. February 17, 2019.
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Type
Working Paper
Daniel, Kent, Robert Litterman, and Gernot Wagner
. Applying Asset Pricing Theory to Calibrate the Price of Climate Risk. October 10, 2018.
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Type
Working Paper
Collin-Dufresne, Pierre and Kent Daniel
. Liquidity and Return Reversals. December 10, 2014.
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Type
Working Paper
Collin-Dufresne, Pierre, Kent Daniel, Ciamac Moallemi, and Mehmet Saglam
. Strategic Asset Allocation with Predictable Returns and Transaction Costs. January 01, 2014.
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Type
Working Paper
Daniel, Kent, Ravi Jagannathan, and Soohun Kim
. Tail Risk in Momentum Strategy Returns. January 01, 2012.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Daniel, Kent and Tobias Moskowitz
. “Momentum Crashes.”
Journal of Financial Economics
. Forthcoming.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Daniel, Kent and Sheridan Titman
. “Another Look at Market Responses to Tangible and Intangible Information.”
Critical Finance Review
. Forthcoming.
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Course
B9310: (PhD) Behavioral Finance
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Type
Course
B8306: Capital Markets & Investments
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In the Media

Why These Stocks Could Lose Money Even if the Market Gains

MarketWatch
Type
In the Media

How to Understand the Small-Stock Rally

The Wall Street Journal
Type
In the Media

Planet Is Screwed, Says Bank That Screwed the Planet

The New Republic
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In the Media

The Reasons Low-Volatility Stocks Have Fallen out of Favor (but Maybe Shouldn't Have)

The Wall Street Journal
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In the Media

How Much Will Climate Change Cost Us?

Salon
Type
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Study Suggests a New Structure for a Carbon Tax

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