Elizabeth Berger

Elizabeth Berger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. She also serves as the Director of the Program in Entrepreneurial Finance, contributing to academic leadership and program development in finance education and research.

Education:

• PhD in Finance, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
• BA and BFA in Economics and Vocal Performance, Tulane University

Her research lies at the intersection of empirical corporate finance and real-world economic outcomes, with a focus on how financial institutions influence labor market dynamics, firm competitiveness, stock price efficiency, and profitability. She integrates insights from entrepreneurship and product market competition into her financial analysis, contributing to both academic and policy-relevant understanding of financial intermediation.

While no recent publications are listed in the provided text, her research agenda suggests strong engagement with topics in corporate finance, financial regulation, and labor-finance linkages.

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Professor Berger advises and contributes to academic programs, particularly through her leadership in the Entrepreneurial Finance program. She has previously held a faculty position at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, demonstrating a strong academic trajectory. There is no mention of external grants in the provided content.

She is actively involved in research and academic administration but no specific labs or research teams are mentioned in the text.