Yaron Leitner
Visiting Associate Professor of Finance

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 - Corporate), Olin Business School, 2023
- Reid Teaching Award (MS Finance - Corporate), Olin Business School, 2022
- Reid Teaching Award (MS Finance – Wealth and 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