Henry Kaufman Initiative in Financial History | People

Viral V. Acharya is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business (NYU-Stern).  Viral was a Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) during 23rd January 2017 to 23rd July 2019 in charge of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Financial Stability, and Research. His speeches while at the RBI were released in July 2020 in the form of a book titled …read more

Bruce Tuckman is Clinical Professor of Finance at Stern. He began his academic career at Stern and then moved to research groups on Wall Street, beginning with Salomon Brothers in 1994 and concluding with Lehman. He rejoined the Stern School in 2012. From fall 2017 to summer 2020, Professor Tuckman was on leave from Stern to be the Chief Economist at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C…read more

Carola Frydman is the Harold L. Stuart Professor of Finance and the Faculty Director of the John  L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises at the Kellogg School of Management, as well as  Professor of History (by courtesy) at Northwestern University. She is a Research Associate in  Corporate Finance and in the Development of the American Economy at the National Bureau of  Economic Research. Professor Frydman’s research areas are at the intersection of corporate finance and…read more

Eric Hilt is Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also been a visiting professor at Yale University and at the Paris School of Economics, and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. His work analyzes the financial development of the United States, and has focused on a broad range of topics including the role of elite financiers in the economy in the Gilded Age…read more

Peter Koudijs is Professor of Finance and History with the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His research has focused on the cross section of finance and history. Professor Koudijs has received numerous grants and awards to fund his research and work. He previously served as an Associate Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for nearly ten years, where he taught the History of Financial Crises to MBA students…read more

Stephan Luck is a financial research advisor in the Research Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  He studies macroeconomics and finance with a focus on financial and economic history. Stephan’s research agenda centers around using newly digitized historical micro data to answer fundamental questions in macro-finance and banking that cannot be answered by using contemporary data alone. Among other things, Stephan has written on the history of banking in the United States, banking panics during the Great Depression, and the macroeconomic…read more