DOUGLAS W. DIAMOND

September 2008

Curriculum Vitae

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Address

Graduate School of Business

University of Chicago

5807 S Woodlawn Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637      

Phone: (773) 702-7283

Education

A.B., Economics, Brown University, June 1975.

M.A., Economics, Yale University, December 1976.

M. Phil., Economics, Yale University, December 1977.

Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, June 1980.

Academic Honors and Editorships

Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1990-.

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001-.

Editor, Journal of Business, 1988- 2001

Foreign Editor, Review of Economic Studies, 1993-97.

Associate Editor, Journal of Finance, 1988-1996, 2000-2003.

Associate Editor, Journal of Banking and Finance, 1995-.

Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Services Research, 1993-.

Editorial Board, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 1989-93.

President, Western Finance Association, 2001-2002.

President, American Finance Association, 2003-2004.

Board of Directors, Center for Research in Security Prices, 1994-

Board of Directors, American Finance Association, 1988-90, 1999-2006.

National Science Foundation grants, 1987-91, 1999-2008.

Garn Institute of Finance grant, 1989-1990.

Batterymarch Fellowship, 1984-1985.

Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 1975.

Academic Consultant, Federal Reserve Board, 1990.

Academic Consultant, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 1990-.

Teaching and Research Experience

Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, July 2000 to present. Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Finance, 1993-2000. Professor of Finance, 1988-1993 and 1986-1987. Associate Professor, 1983-1986. Assistant Professor, 1980-1983. Instructor, 1979.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Associate, 1999-.

Professor of Finance, Yale School of Organization and Management, 1987-1988.

Visiting Professor of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, August 1997.

Visiting Scholar, University of Bonn, Department of Economics, Autumn, 1983.

Summer Research Associate, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, summers of 1976-78.

Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, Yale University, 1977-1978.

Director of Research, Rhode Island House of Representatives Commission to Study Medical Malpractice Rates, Summer 1975.

Research Associate, Rhode Island Governor's Task Force on Health Finance, 1973-1974.

Special Project Associate, A. G. Becker and Co., Chicago, IL, Summer 1972.

Research Interests

Theory of financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity; bank regulation and deposit insurance; debt maturity structure and the role of short-term debt.

Publications

"Information Aggregation in a Noisy Rational Expectations Economy," Journal of Financial Economics, September 1981 (with Robert Verrecchia).

"Optimal Managerial Contracts and Equilibrium Security Prices," Journal of Finance, May 1982 (with Robert Verrecchia).

"Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance and Liquidity," Journal of Political Economy, June 1983 (with Philip Dybvig). Reprinted in Financial Markets and Incomplete Information: Frontiers of Modern Financial Theory, Bhattacharaya and Constantinides (editors), Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1989 (and in Winter 2000 Quarterly Review of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

"Financial Intermediation and Delegated Monitoring," Review of Economic Studies, July 1984.

"Optimal Release of Information by Firms," Journal of Finance, September 1985.

"Banking Theory, Deposit Insurance and Bank Regulation," Journal of Business, January 1986 (with Philip Dybvig).

"Constraints on Short-Selling and Asset Price Adjustment to Private Information," Journal of Financial Economics, June 1987. (with Robert Verrecchia).

"Asset Services and Financial Intermediation," in Financial Markets and Incomplete Information: Frontiers of Modern Financial Theory, S. Bhattacharaya and G. Constantinides (editors), Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1989.

"Reputation Acquisition in Debt Markets," Journal of Political Economy, August 1989.

"Debt Maturity Structure and Liquidity Risk," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1991.

"Monitoring and Reputation: The Choice Between Bank Loans and Directly Placed Debt," Journal of Political Economy, August 1991.

"Disclosure, Liquidity and the Cost of Capital," Journal of Finance, September 1991. (with Robert Verrecchia).

"Bank Loan Maturity and Priority When Borrowers Can Refinance," in Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation, Colin Mayer and Xavier Vives (editors), Cambridge University Press, 1993.

"Seniority and Maturity of Debt Contracts," Journal of Financial Economics, June 1993.

"Corporate Capital Structure: The Control Roles of Bank and Public Debt, with Taxes and Costly Bankruptcy," Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Spring 1994.

"Financial Intermediation as Delegated Monitoring, a Simple Example," Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Summer 1996. Click the title to download as a pdf file.

"Liquidity, Banks, and Markets," Journal of Political Economy, October 1997.

"A Theory of Bank Capital," Journal of Finance December 2000 (with Raghuram Rajan).  Click the title to download as a pdf file

"Liquidity risk, liquidity creation and financial fragility: A theory of banking," Journal of Political Economy April 2001. (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

"Should Japanese Banks Be Recapitalized?" Monetary and Economic Studies (Bank of Japan): 19 ( May 2001): 1-19.    Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

"Banks, Short Term Debt and Financial Crises: Theory, Policy Implications and Applications," Carnegie Rochester Conference on Public Policy, 54 (Summer 2001).  (with Raghuram Rajan).  Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Banks and LiquidityAmerican Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2001) (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Should Banks Be Recapitalized Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Fall 2001.  Click the title to download as a pdf file
   

“Bank Bailouts and Aggregate LiquidityAmerican Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2002 (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

 “Committing to Commit:  Short-term Debt When Enforcement is Costly,” American Finance Association Presidential Address, August 2004, Journal of Finance

“Liquidity Shortages and Banking CrisesJournal of Finance (April 2005) (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Money in a Theory of BankingAmerican Economic Review, March 2006. (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

Comment on “Bubbles and capital flow volatility: Causes and risk management,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 55-57.

 

“Delegated Monitoring and Legal Protection,” working paper, revised October 2006, University of Chicago GSB.  This is Chapter 1 of my Princeton Lectures in Finance.

 

“Banks, Runs and Liquidity Creation,” working paper, University of Chicago GSB, January 2007, revised August 2007.

 

“Banks and Liquidity Creation:A Simple Exposition of the Diamond-Dybvig Model,”  Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond ,Spring 2007 Vol. 93 No. 2.

 

“Legal Systems, Bank Finance and Debt Maturity,”  November 2007.

 

“Illiquidity and Interest Rate Policy,” September 2008 (with Raghu Rajan).

 

 

Just the downloadable papers:

"Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance and Liquidity," Journal of Political Economy, June 1983 (with Philip Dybvig). Reprinted in Financial Markets and Incomplete Information: Frontiers of Modern Financial Theory, Bhattacharaya and Constantinides (editors), Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1989 (and in Winter 2000 Quarterly Review of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis).  Click the title to download as a pdf file.

"Financial Intermediation and Delegated Monitoring," Review of Economic Studies, July 1984.

"Corporate Capital Structure: The Control Roles of Bank and Public Debt, with Taxes and Costly Bankruptcy," Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Spring 1994.

"Financial Intermediation as Delegated Monitoring, a Simple Example," Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Summer 1996. Click the title to download as a pdf file.

"A Theory of Bank Capital," Journal of Finance December 2000 (with Raghuram Rajan).  Click the title to download as a pdf file

"Liquidity risk, liquidity creation and financial fragility: A theory of banking," Journal of Political Economy April 2001. (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

"Should Japanese Banks Be Recapitalized?" Monetary and Economic Studies (Bank of Japan): 19 ( May 2001): 1-19.    

Revised and extended as “Should banks be recapitalized?” forthcoming in Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

"Banks, Short Term Debt and Financial Crises: Theory, Policy Implications and Applications," Carnegie Rochester Conference on Public Policy, 54 (Summer 2001).  (with Raghuram Rajan).  Click the title to download as a pdf file.
 

“Banks and LiquidityAmerican Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2001) (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Should Banks Be Recapitalized Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Fall 2001.  Click the title to download as a pdf file

 

“Bank Bailouts and Aggregate LiquidityAmerican Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2002 (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Committing to Commit:  Short-term Debt When Enforcement is Costly,” American Finance Association Presidential Address, August 2004, Journal of Finance

 

“Liquidity Shortages and Banking CrisesJournal of Finance (April 2005) (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Money in a Theory of BankingAmerican Economic Review, March 2006. (with Raghuram Rajan). Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

Comment on “Bubbles and capital flow volatility: Causes and risk management,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 55-57.  Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Delegated Monitoring and Legal Protection,” working paper, revised October 2006, University of Chicago GSB.  This is Chapter 1 of my Princeton Lectures in Finance.  Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Banks and Liquidity Creation:A Simple Exposition of the Diamond-Dybvig Model,”  Economic Quarterly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond ,Spring 2007 Vol. 93 No. 2.  Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

“Legal Systems, Bank Finance and Debt Maturity,”  November 2007.

Click the title to download as a pdf file.

 

 

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