K. Geert Rouwenhorst is the Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Professor at Yale School of Management and Deputy Director for International Financial Center at Yale. He is also a partner at SummerHaven Investment management.[1] His work has traced the history of mutual funds through 18th century Netherlands.[2][3] The International Financial Center at Yale also holds the oldest non-defaulted bond in the world.
His recent work with Gary B. Gorton[4] has been influential in establishing the idea of commodities as an asset class and has fueled the rise of commodity indices and exchange-traded funds. He has studied the relative performance of futures and the underlying commodities.[5]
Degrees edit
- Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1991
- MS University of Rochester, 1988
- BLaw Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1986
- MS Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1985
References edit
- ^ "Our People". Summerhaven.com.
- ^ Rowenhorst, K.Geert (December 12, 2004). "The Origins of Mutual Funds". Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-48. SSRN 636146.
- ^ William Goetzmann; K. Geert Rouwenhorst (2005). The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517571-4.
- ^ Gorton, Gary; Hayashi, Fumio; Rouwenhorst, K. Geert (February 7, 2012). "The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns". Yale ICF Working Paper No. 07-08. SSRN 996930.
- ^ Fisher, Daniel (May 22, 2006). "Precious Commodities". Forbes. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
External links edit
- "K. Geert Rouwenhorst". Yale School of Management - Faculty Profiles. 2013-07-02. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- "K. Geert Rouwenhorst". IDEAS at RePEc.
- Salisbury, Ian (2010-08-30). "New Commodity ETF Touts Academic Pedigree". Wall Street Journal.
- Hougan, Matt. "The New Active Commodity ETF: It's About Time".
- Krishnan, Barani (August 22, 2007). "Inventories, not other markets, drive commodities". Reuters. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
- "Geert Rouwenhorst". JSTOR.
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