Yaron Leitner


Senior Lecturer in Finance

Yaron Leitner

Yaron Leitner


Area of Expertise


Banking and Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance

Education


  • Ph D 2001, Northwestern University
  • MS 1995, Technion
  • BS 1992, Technion

Awards/Honors


  • Reid Teaching Award (MS Finance - Wealth & Asset Management), Olin Business School, 2023
  • Reid Teaching Award (MS Finance - Corporate), Olin Business School, 2023
  • Reid Teaching Award (MS Finance - Corporate), Olin Business School, 2022
  • Reid Teaching Award (MS Finance – Wealth & Asset Management), Olin Business School, 2022
  • Reid Teaching Award (MS Finance - Quantitative Finance), Olin Business School, 2021
  • Reid Teaching Award (MS Finance - Corporate), Olin Business School, 2021
  • Reid Teaching Award (MS Business Analytics - FinTech), Olin Business School, 2019

Selected Publications


  • "Model Secrecy and Stress Tests", Journal of Finance, with Basil Williams, 2023
  • "Stress Tests Disclosure: Theory, Practice, and New Perspectives", In J. Farmer, A. Kleinnijenhuis, T. Schuermann, & T. Wetzer (Eds.), Handbook of Financial Stress Testing, Cambridge University Press, with Itay Goldstein, 2022
  • "Regulating a Model", Journal of Financial Economics, with Bilge Yilmaz, 2019
  • "Stress Tests and Information Disclosure", Journal of Economic Theory, with Itay Goldstein, 2018
  • "Market Run-Ups, Market Freezes, Inventories, and Leverage", Journal of Financial Economics, with Philip Bond, 2015
  • "Inducing Agents to Report Hidden Trades: A Theory of an Intermediary", Review of Finance, 2012
  • "Financial Networks: Contagion, Commitment, and Private Sector Bailouts", Journal of Finance, 2005