Geert Bekaert.

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Geert Bekaert is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Asset Pricing and a professor of finance at Columbia University's business school. He is on leave from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Bekaert received his B.A. from the University of Ghent in 1986 and his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1992. Before entering graduate school, he worked in the Research Department of the Kredietbank in Belgium (1986-7). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Tilburg, Maastricht, and Ghent.

Bekaert's research focus is international finance, particularly foreign exchange market efficiency, exchange rate and interest rate determination, and international equity markets. He has been involved in several projects on emerging equity markets, sponsored by...