Nisan Langberg Assistant Professor of Finance Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2004 Home	Contact Information Department of Finance C.T. Bauer College of Business 334 Melcher Hall, Houston TX 77204 USA Tel: (713) 743-4765 Fax: (713) 743-4789 Email me
FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION Corporate Finance, Contract Theory, Economics of Information APPOINTMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, August 2004-present EDUCATION Ph.D. Finance, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Evanston IL, 2004 M.A. Economics, Haifa University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1999 M.A. Statistics, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, 1998 B.A. Economics & Statistics, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, 1997 Diploma: Actuarial Techniques, Faculty of Actuaries, Institute of Actuaries (UK), 1997 TEACHING Ph.D. Course “Seminar in Corporate Finance Theory” (University of Houston: fall 2005, fall 2006) Introduction to Corporate Finance (University of Houston: spring 2005, fall 2005, fall 2006) PAST POSITIONS Lecturer, Economics Department, Northwestern University, Introduction to Corporate Finance, 2003-2004 Teaching Assistant, Kellogg School of Management, (Ph.D. Program) Aggregate Implications of Financial Contracting, (Full-time MBA Program) Finance I/II, International finance, Derivatives, (Executive MBA Program) Managerial Finance, 2002-2004 Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, (Undergraduate Program) Macroeconomics, Stochastic processes, (Ph.D. Program) Statistical Inference, (Actuarial Sciences) Life Contingencies, (1997-1999) AWARDS, HONORS Melcher Research Excellence Award, C.T. Bauer College of Business 2009 Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance, finalist, 2003 AFA Travel Grant, American Finance Association annual meeting, Atlanta, 2003 Fellowship, Kellogg School of Management, 1999-2003 Dean Award, Haifa University, M.A. Thesis (1999), Excellence in Economics (1998, 1999), Excellence in Statistics (1998) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS Western Finance Association, 2009 Summer Econometric Society, 2009 FMA, 2008 (Session Chair) Utah Winter Finance Conference, 2007 American Finance Association annual meeting, 2007 UNC/Duke Corporate Finance Conference, 2006 Ben Gurion University, 2006 American Finance Association, 2006 American Finance Association, 2006 (Discussant) Financial Management Association, 2006 (Discussant) Western Finance Association, 2005 (Discussant) Western Finance Association, 2004 Finance and Accounting in Tel-Aviv, 2004 (Discussant) Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance, 2003 Western Finance Association, 2003 (Discussant) PAPERS “Voluntary Disclosures and Information Production by Analysts,” with Konduru Sivaramakrishnan, Journal of Accounting and Economics (2008) Vol. 46(1), pp. 78-100. “Optimal Financing for Growth Firms,” Journal of Financial Intermediation (2008) Vol. 17, pp. 379-406. “Corporate Fraud and Overinvestment in Efficient Capital Markets,” with Praveen Kumar RAND Journal of Economics (2009) Vol. 40, pp. 144-172. “Innovation and Investment Bubbles,” with Praveen Kumar 2007 “The Resource Allocation Role of Capital Markets and Voluntary Disclosures,” with Konduru Sivaramakrishnan, 2008 REFEREEING Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Monetary Economics, European Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Management Science