Mark Egan
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Education
Ph.D. and M.A., economics, The University of Chicago
Summary of Experience
Professor Egan specializes in the application of financial economics and industrial organization to issues in banking, financial intermediation, and consumer finance, drawing on a combination of rigorous empirical research and insight grounded in real-world industry experience. His research examines how consumers access financial markets through banks and brokerage firms and how incentives and regulation affect market outcomes. Professor Egan’s studies have been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economic Studies, The Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and The Review of Financial Studies. His research has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. Professor Egan is an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives, The Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, and a faculty research associate in corporate finance at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has received the Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award from The Review of Financial Studies and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong security. Professor Egan also writes business school cases for Harvard Business School, drawing on conversations with CEOs and CFOs across the financial sector and other industries. These discussions inform empirical analyses of competition, pricing, valuation, and strategic decision making. He has also developed case studies on valuation, forecasting, banking, mutual funds, fintech, cryptocurrencies, M&A, and climate-related financial risk. Previously, he worked on interest-rate and structured-products trading desks at Barclays Capital and Bank of America.