Anat Admati

George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics
Stanford University

Anat Admati is the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. She has written extensively on information dissemination in financial markets, trading mechanisms, portfolio management, financial contracting, and, most recently, on corporate governance and banking.  In the last two years she has been active in the policy debate on financial regulation, particularly capital regulation.

Professor Admati received her BS from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and her MA, MPhil and PhD from Yale University. She is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Batterymarch Fellowship, and multiple research grants. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and has served as a board member of the American Finance Association. She currently serves on editorial boards and on the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee.

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Supplementing the discussion in our book The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It, this paper examines the plausibility and relevance of claims in banking theory that fragility of bank funding is useful because it imposes discipline on bank...

Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Expensive.  A paper by Anat Admati, Peter DeMarzo, Martin Hellwig and Paul Pfleiderer, August 2010.

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Anat Admati speaks about financial stability at INET's "Changing of the Guard?" conference in Hong Kong.

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Stability or growth?

This is the trade off we’re always presented with in financial reform. But we’re being offered a false choice, Anat Admati says.

On the first episode of INET’s new video series, “New Economic Thinking with Rob Johnson,” Admati speaks about her book, The Bankers New Clothes, and explains how banks can be more stable and still productive.

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Anat Admati, George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University at the panel entitled "The Challenge of DeLeveraging and Overhangs of Debt II: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 13, 2012. #inetberlin