User:TonyTheTiger/Lauren H. Cohen

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Lauren Harry Cohen is an Jewish American financial economist, an assistant professor at Harvard University (HBS) and a nationally ranked powerlifting champion. He was previously an assistant professor at Yale University.

Professional career
After receiving both a B.A. and a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School respectively in 2001 (both Summa cum laude), and both an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 2005 (in an uncommonly quick 4 years), Lauren accepted a position at the Yale University School of Management as an assistant professor. He taught finance at Yale from 2005-2007 after which he moved to accept a position at the Harvard Business School.

Lauren researches asset pricing, behavioral finance,  market efficiency,  and mutual funds. Lauren's research has won many awards including the European Finance Association's Barclays Global Investors Prize for 2006 Best Paper presented at the Asset Allocation Symposium for "The Market for 401(k) Plans: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Asset Allocation" (with Breno Schmidt) and the Western Finance Association's 2007 Society of Quantitative Analysts Award for the best paper in quantitative investments for "Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice".

The Journal of Finance continues to be the most highly cited (and thus most prestigious) journal in the field of finance. Lauren (along with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy) will be published in the October 2007 edition for "Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market." In addition, the prizewinning "Economic Links and Predictable Returns" (with Andrea Frazzini) is forthcoming in the Journal of Finance.

Lauren has won several other research awards and grants for which internet documentation is not available.

Powerlifting
Lauren has been a national caliber powerlifter for several years. He was the nation's #1 ranked squatter in his weightclass in 2006 with a lift. He won the 2002 American Open Powerlifting Junior Division (23 and under) Championships. He placed 2nd at the 2003 Junior Nationals. Lauren continues to compete in the class while working full time as a finance professor, and his most recent totals include a  squat,   bench press, and  deadlift performance at the 2007 Men's National Championships.