Biography

Lawrence M. Benveniste, Ph.D., is Dean of Emory University's Goizueta Business School. He also holds the academic position of the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance.

Prior to his current role, Benveniste served as Dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He rose to the rank of dean from his faculty position as the U.S. Bancorp Professor of Finance. He also served on the faculties of Boston College, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Rochester.

Benveniste worked as a staff economist for the Board of Governors to the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., where he helped to develop several significant regulatory initiatives, including risk-based capital, which monitors the equity value of commercial banks to protect the deposit insurance system.

He is currently on the Board of Directors of Alliance Data Systems and Rimage Corporation.

Publications

• The option to withdraw IPO's during the premarket: empirical analysis," Journal of Financial Economics, 60:73-102, with Re Jin Guo and Walid Busaba.
• "Who Benefits from Secondary Market Price Stabilization of IPO's," Journal of Banking and Finance, 22: 741-767, with S.M. Erdal and W. Wilhelm.
• "How Investment Bankers Determine the Offer Price and Allocation of New Issues," Journal of Financial Economics, 24: 343-361, 1989, with P. Spindt

Academic Background
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
B. S., University of California at Irvine