Lars Alexander Kuehn

PHONE

412-268-8501

OFFICE

GSIA - Tepper School of Business - Room 314B

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Finance

EDUCATION

University of British Columbia - Ph D - 2008
Freie Universitaet, Berlin - Diplom Kaufmann - 2001

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Asset pricing and macroeconomics

USEFUL LINKS

Link to personal website

PUBLICATIONS

• Investment-Based Corporate Bond Pricing

(author(s): Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Lukas Schmid) Journal of Finance 69(6), 2014; 2741-2776

• Consumption Volatility Risk

(author(s): Oliver Boguth, Lars-Alexander Kuehn) Journal of Finance 68(8), 2013; 2589-2615

• Monetary Policy and Corporate Default

(author(s): Harjoat Bhamra, Adlai Fisher, Lars-Alexander Kuehn) Journal of Monetary Economics 58(5), 2011; 480-494

• The Aggregate Dynamics of Capital Structure and Macroeconomic Risk

(author(s): Harjoat Bhamra, Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Ilya Strebulaev) Review of Financial Studies 23(12), 2010; 4187-4241

• Long-Run Risks, Credit Markets, and Financial Structure

(author(s): Hajoat Bhamra, Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Ilya Strebulaev) American Economic Review P&P 100(2), 2010; 547-551

• The Levered Equity Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A Unified Framework

(author(s): Harjoat Bhamra, Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Ilya Strebulaev) Review of Financial Studies 23(2), 2010; 645-703

WORKING PAPERS

• Misallocation Cycles

(author(s): Cedric Ehouarne, Lars-Alexander Kuehn, David Schreindorfer)

• The Importance of Time-to-Build for Investment-Based Asset Pricing

• A Labor Capital Asset Pricing Model

(author(s): Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Mikhail Simutin, Jessie Wang)

• Asset Pricing with Real Investment Commitment

• An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search

(author(s): Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Lu Zhang)

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Tepper School of Business - The Gerald L. Thomson Teaching Award (2013)
• Midwest Finance Association Meeting - WRDS Outstanding Paper Award in Asset Pricing (2013)
• ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference - Best Paper Award (2013)
• Napa Conference on Financial Markets - Best Paper Award (2012)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Tepper Award for Academic Excellence in Finance, Committee Chair (2016 - 2016)
• Finance faculty recruiting chair, Committee Chair (2015 - 2016)
• CQA Investment Challenge, Faculty Mentor (2015 - 2016)
• Tepper Award for Academic Excellence in Finance, Committee Chair (2015 - 2015)
• CQA Investment Challenge, Faculty Mentor (2014 - 2015)
• PhD Program coordinator in finance, Program Coordinator (2011 - 2014)
• Tepper Award for Academic Excellence in Finance, Committee Chair (2014 - 2014)
• CQA Investment Challenge, Faculty Mentor (2013 - 2014)
• Advances in Macro-Finance Tepper-LAEF Conference, Conference co-organizer (2012 - 2012)
• Advances in Macro-Finance Tepper-LAEF Conference, Conference co-organizer (2011 - 2011)
• Seminar organizer in finance, TEPPER SEMINAR SERIES (2009 - 2010)
• Advances in Macro-Finance Tepper-LAEF Conference, Conference co-organizer (2010 - 2010)
• Seminar organizer in finance, TEPPER SEMINAR SERIES (2008 - 2009)
• Finance recruiting committee member, Committee Member (2008 - 2009)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Session Chair, Society for Financial Studies Cavalcade Annual Meeting (May 2016 - May 2016)
• Conference Paper Reviewer, European Finance Association (March 2016 - March 2016)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Journal of Financial Economics (March 2016 - March 2016)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Management Science (March 2016 - March 2016)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Management Science (March 2016 - March 2016)
• Conference Paper Reviewer, Western Finance Association, Program Committee (February 2016 - February 2016)
• Session Chair, American Finance Association Annual Meeting (December 2015 - December 2015)
• Conference Paper Reviewer, Annual Napa Conference on Financial Markets (December 2015 - December 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Journal of Finance (December 2015 - December 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Review of Finance (December 2015 - December 2015)
• Conference Paper Reviewer, ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference, Program Committee (November 2015 - November 2015)
• Conference Paper Reviewer, Midwest Finance Association (November 2015 - November 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Review of Financial Studies (November 2015 - November 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (September 2015 - September 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Management Science (September 2015 - September 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Review of Finance (September 2015 - September 2015)
• Session Chair, European Finance Association Annual Meeting (August 2015 - August 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Review of Finance (July 2015 - July 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Journal of Finance (June 2015 - June 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Review of Finance (June 2015 - June 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Review of Financial Studies (June 2015 - June 2015)
• Journal Article Reviewer, Journal of Finance (May 2015 - May 2015)
• Conference Paper Reviewer, Northern Finance Association (April 2015 - April 2015)

COURSES TAUGHT

• Finance II (45820) 2016 Mini 1 Section: A, E

• Derivative Securties (70497) 2015 Section: A

• Debt Markets (45924) 2015 Mini 2 Section: A
  2014 Mini 2 Section: A, E

• Investment Analysis (45821) 2015 Mini 2 Section: A
  2014 Mini 2 Section: A

• DERIVATIVE SECURTIES (70497) 2014 Section: A
  2013 Section: A, A

• Applied Asset Management (45821) 2013 Mini 2 Section: E
  2013 Mini 4 Section: E
  2012 Mini 1 Section: E

• Fixed-Income Investments (45924) 2013 Mini 2 Section: A

• Derivative Securities (70497) 2012 Section: A
  2011 Section: A
  2010 Section: A

• Seminar in Finance II (47722) 2012 Mini 4 Section: A

• Options (45814) 2010 Mini 3 Section: E
  2010 Mini 4 Section: A

• Finance (70391) 2008 Section: A, B