Biography

Ravi Bansal is J.B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research spans asset pricing and macroeconomics; specifically models of asset markets (long run risks), money and liquidity, and climate change and ESG. His papers have appeared in leading journals, including Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review, and Journal of Econometrics. His work on Long-Run Risks is cited and discussed in the scientific background article for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics, received the bi-annual Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics in 2019 given to a highly influential research paper in the preceding 15 years, and the Smith Breeden distinguished paper award in 2004. Many of his PhD students are placed at leading academic institutions and investment banks.

In addition to Duke University, he has taught at Wharton School of Business, Stanford University, and the Indian School of Business. He earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and prior to his doctorate, he studied at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, and St. Xavier’s School (Delhi).