Steven D. Baker

Steven D. Baker is an Assistant Professor of Commerce at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. His research focuses on financial market participants' interactions in determining asset prices and their connections to the real economy, particularly in crude oil markets and environments with market behavior disagreement.

• Ph.D., Financial Economics - Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
• M.C.S. - University of Virginia
• Sc.B., Computer Science - Brown University
• A.B., German Studies - Brown University

His expertise spans asset pricing, portfolio theory, and commodity markets. Formerly a Computer Scientist at Raytheon Company, he worked on experimental real-time distributed systems prior to his academic career in financial economics.