Zhiguo He

Zhiguo He is primarily interested in agency frictions in corporate finance and asset pricing, with a special focus on contract theory. Before joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 2008, he was visiting the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University as a Post-doc fellow. He also taught at Northwestern University, and was a stock analyst at the China International Capital Corporation in Beijing in 2001. In 2007, He won the Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance, which is an annual competition of doctoral theses from top business schools. He hopes that students in his class develop "systematic perspectives to analyze real-world problems."

He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and finance from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2001. In 2008, he earned a PhD in finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

His hobbies outside the classroom include squash, badminton, and the game of Go.

Selected Publications

Optimal Executive Compensation when Firm Size Follows Geometric Brownian Motion, Review of Financial Studies (2008).

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"The Sale of Multiple Assets with Private Information," Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).

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