Christian Opp

Christian Opp is a Professor of Finance at the Simon Business School, University of Rochester, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on the impact of financial institutions and markets on allocative efficiency, with particular emphasis on informational frictions, intermediation chains, security design, and credit rating agencies. He also investigates venture capital's macroeconomic implications and the effects of market power in OTC and securities lending markets.

• 2025 - Intermediary Capital and the Credit Market
• 2025 - Market Power in the Securities Lending Market
• 2024 - Environmental Disclosures in Global Supply Chains
• 2023 - Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains
• 2023 - Dynamic Asset (Mis)Pricing: Build-up vs. Resolution Anomalies

His recent work highlights trends in regulatory arbitrage, asymmetric information, and the role of granular dynamic economies. Key subfields include credit allocation, security pooling, venture capital's impact on growth, and the interplay between market structure and information production.

Scientific awards include:

• Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize of the Journal of Finance - Distinguished Paper (2019)
• Jacobs Levy Center Outstanding Research Paper Prize (2019)
• Best Paper Award at the 12th Annual Conference in Financial Economics at IDC-Herzliya (2016)
• NFA Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation (2025)

He teaches courses in Corporate Financial Policy, Corporate Finance, and the PhD Workshop in Applied Economics. His research methodology leverages sparse matrix computation for exact global solutions in granular economies.