Contact Information
- Jonathan Reuter
Associate Professor of Finance (with Tenure)
Carroll School of Management
Boston College, 360E Fulton
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
reuterj@bc.edu
617-552-2863 (office)
617-552-0431 (fax)
Brief Biography
- My research examines the behavior of individual investors and financial institutions, including mutual fund families, investment banks,
rating agencies, financial advisors, and the financial media. My ongoing research focuses on the demand for and value of financial advice (including
experimental work on robo-advice for debt management, joint with the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority), the efficacy of state-sponsored retirement plans
(using administrative data from OregonSaves), and the determinants of trading within retirement accounts in response to Covid, and the compensation of
U.S. mutual fund managers.
My research has been published in leading academic journals include the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. It has also been featured in media outlets such as
The New York Times, Forbes, and U.S. News and World Report.
- I launched a finance elective centered on Python in 2018, and I received the Carroll School Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award for the 2019-2020 academic
year.
- I was appointed to the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Faculty Research Fellow in April 2010 and promoted to Research Associate in
September 2014. I became a TIAA-CREF Institute Fellow in June 2014.
- I shared the 2013 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award with John Chalmers for
"How Do Retirees Value Life Annuities? Evidence from Public Employees"
(published in Review of Financial Studies in 2012). I shared the 2022 Spangler/IQAM award for Best Investments Paper published in
Review of Finance with Eric Zitzewitz for "How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance?
A Regression Discontinuity Approach" (published in September 2021). I received the Carroll School of Management Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award for the 2019-2020 academic year.
- After receiving my Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, I spent one year as a postdoctoral research fellow
at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College in June 2008, I was an assistant professor of finance at the
University of Oregon for five years, where I was named the Laura and Abbott Keller Distinguished Research Scholar. I was also the recipient of the
Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award (Winter 2007) and the James E. Reinmuth MBA Teaching Excellence Award from the first year
class (2007-08). I received my B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
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