NBER profile: Michael S. Weisbach.

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Michael S. Weisbach is a Research Associate in the NBER's Corporate Finance Program. He is also the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair of Finance at Ohio State University. Weisbach received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He previously taught at the University of Rochester, the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, and the University of Chicago.

His early work was on the role of boards of directors in corporate governance. His more recent research has studied corporate financial policy and private equity. In 2009, his paper "Why are Buyouts Leveraged? The Financial Structure of...