José A. Scheinkman

Updated January 2026

Curriculum Vitae

José A. Scheinkman · Department of Economics · Columbia University

Academic Background

B.A. in Economics (1969), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
M.S. in Mathematics (1970), Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil.
M.A. in Economics (1973), University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
Ph.D. in Economics (1974), University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Honors

Fellow, Econometric Society (1978).
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992).
Docteur honoris causa, Université Paris-Dauphine (2001).
Blaise Pascal Chair, France (2002).
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2007).
Member, National Academy of Sciences (2008), Chair of Section 54 (2012-2015).
Corresponding Member, Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2012).
CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications (2014).
Economic Theory Fellow, SAET (2016).
Fellow, American Finance Association (2017).
Fellow, Finance Theory Group (2023).
University of Rochester Distinguished Scholar (2025).

Academic Positions

Present: Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics, Columbia University (2015-present); Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics Emeritus, Princeton University (2013-present).
Past: Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics, Columbia University (2013-2015); Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University (1999-2013).
University of Chicago: Alvin H. Baum Distinguished Service Professor (1997-1999), Chair of Economics (1995-1998), Alvin H. Baum Professor (1987-1997), Professor (1981-1986), Associate Professor (1976-1981), Assistant Professor (1973-1976), Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Economy (1973-1974).
Visiting appointments include Collège de France, EHESS (Paris), Princeton, CEREMADE (Université Paris-Dauphine), Fundação Getulio Vargas, and IMPA.

Other Positions

Vice President, Financial Strategies Group, Goldman Sachs (New York, 1987-1988).
Member, Axiom Investments (2003-2013).
Board of Directors, Cosan Limited and Cosan S.A. (2007-2024).
Board of Directors, TAG (2021-2024).
Board of Directors, StoneCo (2024-present).

Professional Service

Current

Chair, COP30 Presidency Council on Economics, Finance and Climate (2025-present).
Research Associate, NBER (2005-present); Research Fellow, CEPR (2024-present).
Fellow, Institut Louis Bachelier (2016-present).
Member, Editorial Board, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010-present).
Co-editor, Annals of Finance (2004-present).

Selected Past Roles

Board of Directors, Social Science Research Council (2015-2022).
Manager, Keynes Fellowship Fund, Cambridge University (2010-2023).
Manager, Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (2008-2020).
Member, Council of the Econometric Society (1999-2002).
Co-editor, Journal of Political Economy (1983-1994).

Selected Lectures

Harry Johnson Lecture (Royal Economic Society), 1989.
Invited Lecture, World Congress of the Econometric Society, 2000.
Plenary Lecture, Bachelier Finance Society World Congress, Tokyo, 2006.
Plenary Lecture, Society for Economic Dynamics, 2008.
Arrow Lecture, Columbia University, 2010.
Nomura Lecture, Oxford University, 2012.
Plenary Lecture, Bachelier Finance Society World Congress, Dublin, 2018.
Arrow Lecture, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, 2019.
Inaugural Day Lecture, IMSI, 2021.
BBVA Keynote Lecture, LACEA/LAMES, 2023.
Stone Keynote Lecture, XXV Brazilian Finance Meeting, 2025.

Publications

Books

General Equilibrium Growth and Trade: Essays in Honor of Lionel McKenzie (co-editor with J. Green), Academic Press, 1979.
Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles, Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series, Columbia University Press, 2014 (Chinese edition, 2016).

Selected Recent Publications

“Bubbles in assets with finite life” (with H. Berestycki, C. Bruggeman, and R. Monneau), Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2019.
“Shorting in Speculative Markets” (with M. Nutz), Journal of Finance, 2020.
“Climate Finance” (with H. Hong and A. Karolyi), Review of Financial Studies, 2020.
“Savings Gluts and Financial Fragility” (with P. Bolton and T. Santos), Review of Financial Studies, 2021.
“When a Master Dies: Speculation and Asset Float” (with J. Pénasse and L. Renneboog), Review of Financial Studies, 2021.
“A class of short-term models for the oil industry that accounts for speculative storage” (with Y. Achdou et al.), Finance and Stochastics, 2022.
“Estimating the Spatial Amplification of Damage Caused by Degradation in the Amazon” (with R. Araujo, J. Assunção, and M. Hirota), PNAS, 2023.
“Repricing Avalanches” (with M. Nirei), Journal of Political Economy, 2024.
“Emission prices, biomass and biodiversity in tropical forests” (with L. Hansen), AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025.
“Foreign transfers, biomass, and biodiversity in the Amazon” (with J. Assunção), in CEPR Press Paris Report 3, 2025.

Source: Curriculum Vitae, January 2026. Download Full CV (PDF)

Selected Papers

José A. Scheinkman’s working papers. The National Science Foundation supported research that produced some of the working papers on this page.

Unpublished

Carbon prices and reforestation in tropical forest , BIS Working Paper no. 1223, October 30, 2024.
Carbon prices and forest preservation over space and time in the Brazilian Amazon (with J. Assunção, L. Hansen, and T. Munson).
Going-Concern debt of financial intermediaries (with Yueran Ma).
Repricing avalanches in the Billion-Prices data (with L. Leal, H. Mateen, and M. Nirei).
Crime, punishment and the value of social responsibility (with H. Hong, J. Kubik, and I. Liskovich).
Days to cover and stock returns (with H. Hong, W. Li, S. Ni, and P. Yan).
Financial constraints on corporate goodness (with H. Hong and J. Kubik).
Notes On Asset Trading in an Overlapping Generations Economy (1980).
General Equilibrium Models of Economic Fluctuations: A Survey of Theory (1984).
Aggregate Fluctuations from Independent Sectoral Shocks: Self-Organized Criticality in a Model of Production and Inventory Dynamics (with P. Bak, K. Chen and M. Woodford), latest unpublished version: November 1992; published in Ricerche Economiche, 47, 1993.

Published or To Appear

Emission prices, biomass, and biodiversity in tropical forests (with Lars Hansen), To appear in AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025.
Repricing avalanches (with Makoto Nirei). Published in Journal of Political Economy, Volume 132 (4), 2024.
Estimating the Spatial Amplification of Damage Caused by Degradation in the Amazon (with R. Araujo, J. Assunção, and M. Hirota). Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120(46), 2023.
A class of short-term models for the oil industry addressing speculative storage (with Y. Achdou et al.). Published in Finance and Stochastics, Volume 26 (3), 2022.
When a master dies: speculation and asset float (with L. Renneboog and J. Penasse). Published in Review of Financial Studies 34(8), 2021.
Savings gluts and financial fragility (with Patrick Bolton and Tano Santos). Published in Review of Financial Studies 34(3), 2021.
Climate Finance (with H. Hong and A. Karolyi). Published in Review of Financial Studies 33(3), 2020.
Shorting in speculative markets (with Marcel Nutz). Published in Journal of Finance 75(2), 2020.
Bubbles in Assets with Finite Life (with H. Berestycki, C. Bruggeman, and R. Monneau). Published in Mathematics and Financial Economics 13(3), 2019.
Stochastic compounding and uncertain valuation (with Lars Hansen). Published in Après le Déluge: Finance and the Common Good after the Crisis, E. G. Weyl, E. L. Glaeser, and T. Santos (eds.), University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Cream skimming in financial markets (with P. Bolton and T. Santos). Published in the Journal of Finance 71(2), 2016.
Misspecified recovery (with J. Borovicka and L. Hansen). Published in the Journal of Finance 71(6), 2016.
Yesterday's heroes: compensation and risk at financial firms (with I. Cheng and H. Hong). Published in the Journal of Finance 70(2), 2015.
Shock elasticities and impulse responses (with J. Borovička and L. Hansen). Published in Mathematics and Financial Economics 8(4), 2014.
Speculation, Trading and Bubbles (3rd Annual Arrow Lecture) . Published by Columbia University Press, NY, 2014.
A Non Local Free Boundary Problem Arising in a Theory of Financial Bubbles (with H. Berestycki and R. Monneau). Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 372(2028), 2014.
Speculating on Home Improvements (with H. Choi and H. Hong). Published in Journal of Financial Economics 111(3), 2014.
Shadow Finance (with P. Bolton and Tano Santos). Published in Rethinking the Financial Crisis, A. Blinder, A. Lo and R. Solow (eds.).
Recursive Utility in a Markov Environment with Stochastic Growth (with Lars Hansen). Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109:30, 11967-11972, July 24, 2012.
Pricing Growth-Rate Risk (with Lars Hansen). Published in Finance and Stochastics, 16:1, 2012.
The Informal Sector: An Equilibrium Model and Some Empirical Evidence From Brazil (with Aureo de Paula). Published in Review of Income and Wealth 57:s1, 2011.
Risk Price Dynamics (with J. Borovicka, L. Hansen and M. Hendricks). Published in Journal of Financial Econometrics 9:1, Winter 2011.
Outside and Inside Liquidity (with P. Bolton and T. Santos). Published in Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126:1, 2011.
Value Added Taxes, Chain Effects and Informality (with Aureo de Paula). Published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2:4, October 2010.
Market and Public Liquidity (with P. Bolton and T. Santos). Published in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2009.
Long Term Risk: An Operator Approach (with Lars Hansen). Published in Econometrica, 77:1, January 2009.
Nonlinear Principal Components and Long-run Implications of Multivariate Diffusions Run (with X. Chen and L. Hansen). Published in Annals of Statistics, 37:6B, December 2009.
A Limit Theorem for Systems of Social Interactions (with U. Horst). Published in Journal of Mathematical Economics, 45, 2009.
Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia (with Jianping Mei and Wei Xiong). Published in Annals of Economics and Finance, 10-2, 2009.
Operator Methods for Continuous Time Markov Processes (with Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Lars Hansen). Published in Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Vol 1, L. Hansen and Y. Ait-Sahalia (eds.), 2009.
Advisors and Asset Prices: A Model of the Origins of Bubbles (with Harrison Hong and Wei Xiong). Published in Journal of Financial Economics, 89, 2008.
Social Interactions . Published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Optimal Exercise of American Claims When Markets Are Not Complete (with L.C. Rogers). Published in Finance and Stochastics, July 2007.
Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles (with Harrison Hong and Wei Xiong). Published in Journal of Finance, June 2006.
Equilibria in Systems of Social Interactions (with U. Horst). Published in Journal of Economic Theory, 130, 2006.
Executive Compensation and Short-termist Behavior in Speculative Markets (with Patrick Bolton and Wei Xiong). Published in Review of Economic Studies, 73, 2006.
Pay for Short-Term Performance: Executive Compensation in Speculative Markets (with Patrick Bolton and Wei Xiong). Published in Journal of Corporation Law, Summer 2005.
Heterogeneous Beliefs, Speculation and Trading in Financial Markets (with Wei Xiong). Published in Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2003, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1847, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004.
Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles (with Wei Xiong). Published in Journal of Political Economy, December, 2003.
The Social Multiplier (with Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote). Published in Journal of The European Economic Association, April-May, 2003.
The Injustice of Inequality (with E. Glaeser and A. Shleifer). Published in Journal of Monetary Economics. January 2003, 199-222.
Non-Market Interactions (with Edward Glaeser). Published in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Eight World Congress, M. Dewatripont, L.P. Hansen, and S. Turnovsky (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Financial Intermediation without Exclusivity (with Tano Santos). Published in American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2001.
Competition Among Exchanges (with Tano Santos). Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001.
Optimal Environmental Management in the Presence of Irreversibilities (with Thaleia Zariphopoulou). Published in Journal of Economic Theory 96, 2001.
Measuring Social Interactions (with Edward Glaeser). Published in Social Dynamics, S. Durlauf and P. Young (eds.), MIT Press, 2001.
Spectral Methods for Identifying Scalar Diffusions (with L. Hansen and N. Touzi). Published in Journal of Econometrics 86, 1998.
Short-Term Interest Rates as Subordinated Diffusions (with T. Conley, L. Hansen and E. Luttmer). Published in The Review of Financial Studies 10(3), 1997.