Scott Weisbenner was an American economist, focusing on household portfolio decisions and the financial and operational decisions made by corporate executives and other institutional managers. He was the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance for the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois and before that, the A.J. Pasant Professor of Finance at

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. He received his BA in economics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995, and received his

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in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999. While at MIT, he was classmates with Jeffrey Brown, his future colleague and current dean of the Gies College of Business.

Selected works

* Zoran Ivokovic, Clemens Sialm, Scott Weisbenner, "Portfolio Concentration and the Performance of Individual Investors", 43 ''Journal of Finance & Qualitative Analysis'' 613 (2008): The authors found that where individual investors had the means to diversify across many stocks, those that focused on a few outperformed those who diversified across many stocks. * Dimmock, Stephen G.; Huang, Jiekun; Weisbenner, Scott J, "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your High-Skilled Labor: H-1B Lottery Outcomes and Entrepreneurial Success", ''Management Science'' vol: 68, issue 9, 2022

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* Year of birth missing University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty American economists Michigan State University faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni 2022 deaths {{US-economist-stub