William Cassidy

William Cassidy is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School, joining in July 2023. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and holds a B.A. in Mathematical Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

His research focuses on asset pricing and political economy, examining how political forces influence financial markets. He employs large-scale datasets and natural language processing techniques to analyze topics like political drivers of asset prices and market reactions to policy changes.

• Presented at leading conferences: Western Finance Association, European Finance Association, SFS Cavalcade, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Refereed for journals such as Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science

His work has been featured in The Economist and Chicago Booth Review.