Professor Schwert came to the University of Rochester in 1976. He has been the managing Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics since 1995 and he has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1988. His papers have been cited more than 7,600 times by published books and journal articles covered in the Social Science Citation Index and SCOPUS. His papers have received more than 25,700 citations according to Google Scholar.
Professor Schwert has teaching interests in portfolio and capital-market theory, corporate finance and control, econometrics and time-series analysis, and in the effects of public regulation on business.
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