Stefan Nagel

Stefan Nagel is a German-American financial economist and the Fama Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA) and a research fellow at the Centre of Economic Policy Research (London, UK). After completing a degree at the University of Trier, Nagel earned his PhD at London Business School. Prior to joining the University of Chicago faculty, he previously taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

He was appointed as editor of the Journal of Finance in 2016.

In 2004 he won the Smith Breeden best paper prize (Journal of Finance) for his article "Hedge Funds and the Technology Bubble". He won the Fama/DFA best paper prize (Journal of Financial Economics) as a co-author twice, in 2006 for the article "The Conditional CAPM Does Not Explain Asset Pricing Anomalies" and in 2020 for the article "Shrinking the cross section".