Jiri Knesl

Associate Professor of Finance (Rank Assistant Professor)

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP, United Kingdom

Research Interests: Empirical and Theoretical Asset Pricing, Innovation and Technological Changes with Society-Wide Impact

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Publications

Automation and the Displacement of Labor by Capital: Asset Pricing Theory and Empirical Evidence

Journal of Financial Economics, 2023

Best Paper prize at the 2019 Belgrade Young Economists Conference

Working Papers

Patent Intensity, Firm Life Cycle, and the Long-Run Return and Risk Dynamics of Technological Innovators, with Jan Bena, Adlai Fisher, and Julian Vahl (September 2022, updated December 7, 2024) Internet Appendix

Presented or scheduled at: Seoul National University, UT Dallas Fall Finance Conference 2023, Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting 2023, University of Technology Sydney, NFA 2023, Adam Smith Workshop 2023, World Investment Research Symposium 2023, UBC Winter Finance Conference 2023, MFA 2023, NFA 2023, CICF 2023, Asian Finance Association Annual Conference 2023

How Valuable is Corporate Adaptation to Crisis? Estimates from Covid-19 Work-from-Home Announcements, with Adlai Fisher and Ryan Lee (September 2022, updated June 16, 2024) Internet Appendix

Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Financial Economics

Presented at: MFA 2023, CICF 2022, DeGroot Business School McMaster University, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Said Business School University of Oxford

Capital Intensity and Investment Shocks: Implications for Stock Returns (2019)

Presented at AFA poster session 2018, NFA Doctoral Session 2017, University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business

Job Displacement through Technology, How Technological Shocks Affect Households' Income and Unemployment (2018)

Presented at Macro Financial Modeling Summer Session at the Becker Friedman Institute (poster) 2018, FMA Doctoral Consortium 2018, University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business 2017

Stock prices and prices of capital goods

Teaching

Teaching Excellence Award (Early Career Strand) 2024, Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford
Asset Pricing II (graduate, MSc, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, since 2020)
Corporate Valuation (Executive MBA, MBA, MSc, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, since 2022)
Investing in Public Equity (MBA, MSc, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, 2020-2021)
Applied Financial Markets, (undergraduate Comm 374, University of British Columbia)
- Student evaluation 4.5/5
- Paul Chwelos Award for Teaching Excellence

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