Martin C. Schmalz

Martin C. Schmalz is a Professor of Finance, Economics, and Real Estate at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK. He serves as Director of the Future of Real Estate Initiative and explores strategic interactions between shareholders, firms, and regulators.

• PhD in Economics from Princeton University (2012)
• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Universität Stuttgart (2007)

His research spans corporate finance, behavioral finance, asset pricing, and real estate economics. Key areas include common ownership effects on competition, anxiety-driven risk behavior, and macroeconomic influences on corporate financial decisions.

His peer-reviewed work appears in leading journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Finance. Awards include the Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize.

He teaches real estate, valuation, corporate finance, and AI to business, engineering, law, and executive students. Outside academia, he consults ultra-high-net-worth individuals on governance, succession planning, and asset allocation.