Bo Becker

Bo Becker (born 1971) is a Swedish economist, and Professor of Financial Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, known for his work on rating, reputation and competition.[1][2]

Life and work

Becker obtained his MSc in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1995, and his PhD in finance at the University of Chicago in 2005 with the thesis, entitled "Geographical Segmentation of US Capital Markets," under Luigi Zingales.[3]

In 2004 Becker started his academic career as research assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 2009 he moved to the Harvard Business School, where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Business Administration. In 2013 back in Sweden he was appointed Professor of Financial Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Selected publications

Articles, a selection:[4]

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gollark: All you need are some nanometre-precision scissors and a very steady hand.
gollark: It's hard to make things which are good at *both* of those, and you would deal with twice the heat in one place.
gollark: CPUs have to execute x86 (or ARM or other things, but generally a documented, known instruction set) very fast sequentially, GPUs can execute basically whatever they want as long as it can be generated from one of the standard ways to interface with them, and do it in a massively parallel way.

References
  1. Skreta, Vasiliki, and Laura Veldkamp. "Ratings shopping and asset complexity: A theory of ratings inflation." Journal of Monetary Economics 56.5 (2009): 678-695.
  2. Bolton, Patrick, Xavier Freixas, and Joel Shapiro. "The credit ratings game." The Journal of Finance 67.1 (2012): 85-111.
  3. BO BECKER - Stockholm School of Economics CV Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 02.02.2015.
  4. Google Scholar profile
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