Gideon Saar

Program Fellow
  • S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University
    Dr. Philip and Rosalyn Baron Professor of Management; Professor of Finance


Professor Saar teaches at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, where his recent course offerings include Investment and Portfolio Management and Ph.D. Seminar in Market Microstructure. Professor Saar's research interests focus on market microstructure, behavioral finance, stock market return predictability, and institutional investors. His numerous articles have appeared in the leading finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Before joining Cornell in 2005, Professor Saar taught at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University (1999 - 2005). In addition to his teaching and research, he has served in a variety of roles, including as Visiting Research Economist at the New York Stock Exchange (2001 - 2002), Member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (2011 - present), Co-Editor of the Journal of Financial Markets (2012 - present), and Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies (2008 - 2001).

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