Andrea Eisfeldt is an expert on financial markets. Professor Eisfeldt’s current research includes financial economic issues related to market liquidity, traditional and intangible asset valuation, the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on firm values, bank products and valuation, over-the-counter (OTC) markets, and equity-based compensation.
Professor Eisfeldt has been retained as an expert witness in numerous finance matters, analyzing a range of issues that include valuation, financial institutions, investment, and fixed income and derivatives, as well as FinTech and crypto assets. In securities class actions, she has addressed class certification, loss causation, and damages issues. Professor Eisfeldt has testified in depositions, arbitrations, and trials.
Professor Eisfeldt holds editorial roles at leading academic journals and has published articles in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, Real Estate Economics, and Econometrica, among other highly regarded research outlets. Her work has been awarded best paper prizes by the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and Real Estate Economics.
At the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Professor Eisfeldt is a research associate in the programs for asset pricing, corporate finance, and economic fluctuations and growth.
Professor Eisfeldt is a member of the board of directors of the UCLA Investment Company, which manages part of the University’s endowment. She has also served on the board of the American Finance Association as a member of the investments, ethics, and strategic planning committees. She also serves as an academic advisor to Vise, a FinTech investment management firm. Professor Eisfeldt’s research on valuing intangible assets led to the creation of the Next Intangible Indices used in the Simplify NXTI ETF.
In addition to her more than two decades in finance research and teaching, Professor Eisfeldt has extensive asset management experience, including as chief economist at Structured Portfolio Management and as a consultant to AQR Capital Management.
At UCLA Anderson, Professor Eisfeldt teaches courses on bonds, options and currencies, corporate finance, FinTech, and cryptocurrency. Previously, she spent a decade at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, receiving tenure in 2007.
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