Meir Statman is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, where he has taught since 1979 and served as Chair of the Finance Department from 1988 to 1992 and again from 1996 to 2007. His research focuses on behavioral finance, seeking to understand how people make financial choices and how those choices are reflected in financial markets. His most recent book is "A Wealth of Well-Being: A Holistic Approach to Behavioral Finance."
The questions he addresses in his research include how investors balance competing wants, how cognitive and emotional shortcuts lead to errors, how those patterns shape saving, spending, and portfolio construction, and how financial well-being connects to life well-being.
His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Financial Analysts Journal, and many other journals, with support from the National Science Foundation and the CFA Institute Research Foundation.
Professor Statman is a recipient of the William F. Sharpe Best Paper Award, the Moskowitz Prize, three Graham and Dodd Awards, two Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards, and the Matthew R. McArthur Industry Pioneer Award. He was named one of the 25 most influential people by Investment Advisor.
He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and his B.A. and M.B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.