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Richard Lyons

Richard Lyons


S. K. and Angela Chan Chair in Global Management and Executive Associate Dean, Haas School of Business
Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
Haas Finance Group
1-510-642-1059
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Academic Status: On leave
Office Hours: Wed. 11-12, F661
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/lyons/
Academic Group Homepages:
http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/eap/, http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/finance/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

BS, Business (finance concentration), University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D., Economics (international and macro), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 1993
2006 - present S. K. and Angela Chan Chair in Global Management
2005 - present Executive Associate Dean, Haas School of Business
2004 - 2005 Acting Dean, Haas School of Business
2004- Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance
2004- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
1993 - 2004 Professor (Associate/Assistant/Full), Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1987 - 93 Professor (Associate/Assistant), Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
1987 Summer Intern, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington D.C.
1985 Research Assistant, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris
1983 - 84 Research Analyst, Financial Industries Division, SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute), Menlo Park, CA,
Visiting Appointments:
University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France; Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; London School of Economics, London, UK; Foundation for Advanced Information and Research (FAIR), Tokyo, Japan; University of Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France

 

External Service and Assignments

  • Research Associate: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • Member: Council on Foreign Relations
  • Associate Editor: California Management Review
  • Associate Editor: Journal of Financial Markets
  • Consultant: IMF, World Bank, Federal Reserve Bank, European Commission
  • Director: iShares (Barclays Global Investors)
  • Director (Chairman): Matthews Asian Funds
  • Advisory Board, Economic Policy Review (NY Fed., 1997-)

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Exchange rate economics
  • Microstructure finance
  • International finance

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • The Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rates, MIT Press,2001.
  • "A Good Investment for Excess Reserves" (with R. Portes), Financial Times, 9/22/2000
  • "Order Flow and Exchange Rate Dynamics," with M. Evans, NBER Working Paper No. 7317, August 1999, Journal of Political Economy, Feb. 2002, 170-180. Abstract
  • "Tests of Microstructural Hypotheses in the Foreign Exchange Market," Journal of Financial Economics, Oct. 1995, 321-351.
  • "Is There Private Information in the FX Market? The Tokyo Experiment," with T. Ito and M. Melvin, Journal of Finance, June 1998, 1111-1130. Abstract
  • "A Simultaneous Trade Model of the Foreign Exchange Hot Potato," Journal of International Economics, May 1997, 275-298. Abstract
  • "Profits and Position Control: A Week of FX Dealing," Journal of International Money and Finance, February 1998, 97-115.Abstract
  • "Customer- and Supplier-Driven Externalities," with R. Caballero and E. Bartelsman, American Economic Review, Sept. 1994, 1075-84.
  • "External Effects in US Procyclical Productivity," with R. Caballero, Journal of Monetary Economics, April 1992, 209-225.

 

Teaching

  • BA 285, International Finance, (Spring 2000)
  • E 285, International Finance, (Spring 2000)
  • BA 239, Financial Market Microstructure--Ph.D., (Spring 2004)

 

Honors and Awards

  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (MFE Program), 2003
  • National Science Foundation grantee, 1994-97, 1997-2000, and 2000-2003.
  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (MBA Program), 1994, 2000
  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Evening MBA Program), 1995-96, 1999
  • U.C. Berkeley’s highest Teaching Award (DTA), 1998
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1984-87
  • Highest Honors, UC Berkeley, 1982
  • Phi Beta Kappa



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