Matthew Richardson is the Charles E. Simon Professor of Applied Economics and Professor of Finance in the Finance Department at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of

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(NYU). He is also the Director of Alternative Investments at the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at NYU. and a Research Associate of the

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. Richardson is a co-editor of the ''

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''. Richardson has co-edited or co-authored four books on the

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and the modernization of insurance regulations: ''Restoring Stability: How to Repair a Failed System'' (2009), ''Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance'' (2010), ''Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance'' (2011) and ''Modernizing Insurance Regulation'' (2014).

Education

Richardson received both his B.A and M.S. in Economics concurrently from the

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in 1984. He received his Ph.D. in finance from the Graduate School of Business at

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in 1989.

Career

Richardson was previously at the

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. Richardson joined the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of

in 1995. He has been the Sidney Homer Director of the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at NYU, He is the Charles E. Simon Professor of Applied Economics and Professor of Finance in the Finance Department at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of

(NYU).

Impersonation

In 2004, Richardson was apparently inadvertently impersonated by a British

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engineering undergraduate by the same name, who took up an offer to perform a series of lectures in Beijing. The student used an

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t textbook to "blag" through two days of lectures before fleeing from his Chinese audience and interpreter.

References

External links

Prof. Richardson's HomepageProfessor Matthew Riichardson on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
where he likens America's subprime mortgage crisis to the aftermath of a Godzilla and King Kong battle in downtown Tokyo. Living people New York University faculty 21st-century American economists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American economics writers National Bureau of Economic Research University of California alumni Stanford University alumni Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Annual Reviews (publisher) editors {{US-economist-stub