People

Staff

  • Burkhard C. Schipper, Director, Professor, Department of Economics and Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics
    Professor Schipper is a leading expert on the logic, game theory, and decision theory of unknown unknowns, or unawareness, and their applications to economics, finance, and business strategy. In finance, his research interests include the differences between trading on information versus trading on awareness; changes in bid-ask spreads when market participants discover events of which they were previously unaware; how the valuation of options accounts for unknown unknowns; and how AI affects the informativeness of prices.

  • Gurubala Kotta, Graduate Student Assistant, Department of Economics
    Gurubala is a 4th year PhD student in the economics department, and her research focuses on macroeconomics and monetary policy transmission. Prior to the PhD, she worked as a financial analyst. She looks forward to connecting with students in the lab!

To contact the staff, email [email protected].

 

Academic Advisory Committee

 

Students interested in finance should also check out the UC Davis Finance & Investment Club.