Itay Goldstein

Education

Ph.D. and M.A., economics, Tel Aviv University

Summary of Experience

Professor Goldstein is an expert on corporate finance, financial institutions, and financial markets, with specializations in financial fragility and crises and the feedback effects between firms and financial markets. He has been retained as an expert on matters involving bank liquidity, and has served as an academic consultant at the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Philadelphia, and Richmond, as well as at the Bank of Canada and US Securities and Exchange Commission. Professor Goldstein’s research has been published in a number of academic journals and covered in popular media outlets such as The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, and NPR. He is the executive editor of The Review of Financial Studies and has served as a finance department editor for Management Science and as an editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation. Professor Goldstein is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a former member of the boards of directors of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society. Prior to joining Wharton, Professor Goldstein was on the faculty of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He has also worked as an economist in the research department of the Bank of Israel. He was a co-founder and the first president of the Finance Theory Group.