David Sraer Lecturer/Researcher, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley

Contact Information:

549 Evans Hall #3880

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-3880

Tel: (510) 809 7775

Curriculum Vitae:

A PDF version is available here.

Research Interests:

Corporate Finance

Industrial Organization

Organization of the Firm

Papers:

“Performance and Behavior of Family Firms: Evidence from the French Stock Market” with David Thesmar, Journal of the European Economic Association, June 2007, 5(4): 709-751.

“Optimal Dissent in Organizations”, with Augustin Landier and David Thesmar, Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies

“Bottom-up Corporate Governance”, with Augustin Landier and David Thesmar, Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Finance.

“The Corporate Wealth Effect: from Real Estate Shocks to Corporate Investment”, with Thomas Chaney and David Thesmar.

“Chaining-up Noise Traders”, with David Thesmar and Thierry Foucault. NEW!

“Entrepreneurship and Credit Constraints: Evidence from a French Loan Guarantee Program” with Claire Lelarge and David Thesmar. NEW!

“A Structural Model of Local Loop Unbundling”, with Philippe Février. (Very Preliminary…)

Work in Progress:

“Meet the invisible hand: Portfolio choice and asset prices in Prosper”

“Risk Transfer in LBOs”, with David Thesmar and Quentin Boucly.

“Mandatory Start-up Capital and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the French 2003 Reform” with Antoinette Schoar and David Thesmar.

Teaching:

Econ C103 An Introduction to Contract Theory (undergrad level).

Econ 296 Advanced Corporate Finance (graduate level)

Other:

Link to the UC Berkeley Economics Department