Assaf Eisdorfer

Assaf Eisdorfer is a Professor and Dean's Ackerman Scholar at the University of Connecticut, specializing in Finance. His research focuses on corporate finance, agency conflicts, financial distress, and their impacts on investment policy and asset pricing. He has published extensively in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Finance, Management Science, and the Review of Financial Studies.

• Education: Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Rochester.
• Education: M.A. and B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Professor Eisdorfer’s work explores how agency conflicts influence corporate investment decisions, risk-shifting behavior, and mispricing in financially distressed firms. His studies also address capital structure dynamics, technology competition's role in bankruptcy, and the interplay between executive compensation and shareholder interests.

His recent publications examine topics such as takeover protections, maturity-driven option mispricing, and the effects of technology competition on corporate survival. These works span disciplines like asset pricing, risk management, and market efficiency, with subfields including corporate governance, default risk modeling, and innovation-driven corporate strategy.

• Scientific Awards: Dean's Ackerman Scholar (University of Connecticut).

Professor Eisdorfer’s advising and grant activities are not explicitly detailed in the provided text, but his research has been supported through institutional affiliations and collaborations with scholars like Ronnie Sadka, Alexei Zhdanov, and Amit Goyal. His work contributes to understanding corporate finance anomalies and strategic risk management in distressed environments.