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Stefan Nagel, Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, is appointed to CRSP’s Fiduciary Board

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Professor Nagel served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Finance, one of the leading academic finance journals in the world, from 2016 to 2022. Previously, he was an editor at the Review of Financial Studies from 2014-2015 and an associate editor at various top journals. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA) and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, UK) and CESifo (Munich, Germany).

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