Jessica A. Wachter Faculty Profile

Jessica A. Wachter
Assistant Professor of Finance

Phd, Harvard University, 2000; AB, Harvard College, 1996

Research Areas
Asset pricing; financial econometric; portfolio choice

Current Projects
General equilibrium models of stocks and bonds; Mutual fund performance evaluation; Optimal portfolio choice under parameter uncertainty.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2003-present. Previous appointments: National Bureau of Economic Research; Stern School of Business, New York University

Representative Publications
(with A. Sangvintatsos)
"Does the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis Matter for Long-Term Investors?" Journal of Finance (forthcoming).

"Risk Aversion and Allocation to Long-Term Bonds." Journal of Economic Theory 112:325-333 (October 2003).

"Portfolio and Consumption Decisions under Mean-Reverting Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 37:63-91 (March 2002).

(with K. Baks and A. Metrick)
"Should Investors Avoid All Actively Managed Mutual Funds? A Study in Bayesian Performance Evaluation." Journal of Finance 56:45-85 (February 2001).