David K. Musto Faculty Profile

David K. Musto
Ronald O. Perelman Associate Professor in Finance; Associate Professor of Finance

PhD, University of Chicago, 1995; BA, Yale University, 1987

Research Areas
Financial intermediation; consumer credit; capital markets

Current Projects
Economics of mutual funds; portfolio risk of consumer credit; predatory lending; shareholder voting.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1995-present(named Ronald O. Perelman Associate Professor in Finance, 2007)

Other Positions
Programmer, Trout Trading Company, 1993; Systems Consultant, Roll & Ross Asset Management, 1987-89

Representative Publications
(with S. Christoffersen, C. Geczy and A. Reed)
"Cross-Border lending and the Preferences of Taxable and Non-Taxable Investors: Evidence from Canada." Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming).

(with S. Gervais and A. Lynch)
"Fund Families as Delegated Monitors of Money Managers." Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).

(with B. Yilmaz)
“Trading and Voting.” Journal of Political Economy (2003).