Jiri Knesl
Associate Professor of Finance (Rank Assistant Professor)
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP, United Kingdom
Email: <jiri.knesl <at> sbs.ox.ac.uk>
Research Interests: Empirical and Theoretical Asset Pricing, Innovation and Technological Changes with Society-Wide Impact
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Journal of Financial Economics, 2023
Best Paper prize at the 2019 Belgrade Young Economists Conference
How Valuable is Corporate Adaptation to Crisis? Estimates from Covid-19 Work-from-Home Announcements, with Adlai Fisher and Ryan Lee (September 2022, updated May 23, 2025) Internet Appendix
Accepted in the Journal of Financial Economics
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
Presented at AFA poster session 2018, NFA Doctoral Session 2017, University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business
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
Highest-scoring instructor in the MFE programme, 2024-2025
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