David Hirshleifer
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David Hirshleifer is a prominent American economist. He currently holds the Merage chair in Business Growth at the University of California at Irvine. He previously held tenured positions at the University of Michigan, The Ohio State University, and UCLA. His work has focused on behavioral finance and informational cascades. In 2007, he was ranked as the 73rd most cited economist by web of science's Most-Cited Scientists in Economics&Business.
He is the son of Jack Hirshleifer, a now deceased prominent UCLA economics professor. He is married to Siew Hong Teoh, an economics and finance professor at the University of California at Irvine. He has edited a number of journals, including the Review of Financial Studies.
