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Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
About José Scheinkman
- José Alexandre Scheinkman (born January 11, 1948) is a Brazilian-American economist, currently the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics at Columbia University and the Theodore A.
- Wells '29 Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University.
- He spent much of his career at the University of Chicago, where he served as department chair immediately prior to his departure for Princeton.
- Prior to immigrating to the United States to study for his PhD in Economics at the University of Rochester, he grew up and was educated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- He is best known for his work in mathematical economics (particularly dynamic optimization) and finance, oligopoly theory and the social economics of cities and crime; he also helped spur the development of work at the intersection of economics, finance and physics.
- Scheinkman also famously pioneered the now-ubiquitous application of academic financial theory to practical risk management of fixed incomes during a leave he took as Vice President in the Financial Strategies Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
- during the late 1980s. Scheinkman's recent research has focused increasingly on finance (both applied, in his work on bubbles, and mathematical, in his work with Lars Hansen).
- He was as a founder and partner of the hedge fund Axiom Investments and was involved in the public affairs of Brazil through writing and consulting.
- He was thesis adviser to prominent economists including Paul Romer, Albert (Pete) Kyle, Edward Glaeser, Alberto Bisin, Adriano Rampini, and Glen Weyl.
- He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Finance Association.
- He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Docteur honoris causa from the Université Paris-Dauphine He is married to the New York psychotherapist Michele Scheinkman and is the father of Andrei Scheinkman.
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