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Alan Kraus (1940–2015) was a distinguished Professor of Finance at the UBC Sauder School of Business, with affiliations at Stanford University, University of Washington, and Queen’s University. He held a BA (Cornell), MBA (Stanford), and PhD (Cornell). Kraus spent 42 years in academia, teaching foundational finance theory to PhD students and mentoring over 15 doctoral candidates. His research spanned capital structure, asset pricing, asymmetric information, and behavioral finance, with over 40 years of journal publications in top-tier outlets like the Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics.
Education:
- BA in Economics, Cornell University
- MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- PhD in Finance, Cornell University (1965)
Research contributions included groundbreaking work on state-preference models, skewness preference extensions to CAPM, and asymmetric information effects on corporate finance. He served as Associate Editor for Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and others. His legacy includes fostering a collaborative 'culture of collegiality' at UBC Sauder and establishing the Alan Kraus Scholarship for doctoral students.
Awards: Multiple unspecified teaching awards; recognition as distinguished speaker at Western/Northern Finance Association conferences (1992–2003).
Advising/Grants: Directed over 15 PhD theses, including prominent scholars like Jacob Sagi. No specific grants listed, but his research funding likely supported foundational finance theory work.
Labs/Teams: Collaborated closely with colleagues like Mike Brennan and Eduardo Schwartz on asymmetric information models. His theoretical framework influenced UBC’s finance program curriculum and pedagogy.
