William Mullins

William Mullins' research is in corporate finance and behavioral economics. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and he has written two case studies for Harvard Business School.

He received Teaching Awards at Rady in 2019 and in 2020, and a Distinguished Referee Award from the Review of Finance in 2019. Before his PhD he worked as an advisor to Chile's Minister of Finance.

He has a Ph.D. in Finance from MIT, a MSc in Economics from the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, and a BA from the University of Oxford. He is from Chile.

Education

• PhD MIT Sloan School of Management
• MSc Economics Pontificia Universidad Cat��lica de Chile
• BA University of Oxford

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Finance University of California San Diego (2017)
• Assistant Professor of Finance University of Maryland (2014 — 2017)
• PhD student (financial economics) MIT Sloan School of Management (2008 — 2014)
• Asesor, Mercado de Capitales Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of Finance), Chile (2006 — 2008)

PUBLICATIONS

• Does Partisanship Shape Investor Beliefs? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic (with A. Cookson and J. Engelberg)
  Review of Asset Pricing Studies (2020)
  
• How do CEOs see their roles? Management Philosophies and Styles in Family and non-family firms (with A. Schoar)
  Journal of Financial Economics, vol.119, Issue 1 (2016)

AWARDS

• Best Paper Prize in Asset Pricing at Western Finance Assoc. Conference, 2021
• Best Paper Prize in Markets and Trading at Midwest Finance Assoc. Conference, 2021
• Best Paper Prize, CQA Academic Competition, 2021
• Distinguished Referee Award, Review of Finance , 2019
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Rady School UC San Diego, 2019, 2020
• Best Paper Prize at Colorado Finance Summit, 2017
• Distinguished Teaching Award, U. of Maryland, R.H. Smith School of Business, 2015, 2016, 2017
• MIT: Arnoldo Hax Fellow; Bennett W. Golub Graduate Fellow; MIT DuPont Presidential Fellow
• P. Universidad Católica de Chile: Academic Excellence Prize
• Oxford University: Open Exhibition; E.T. Warner Prize