Dr. Eduardo Schwartz

Eduardo Schwartz is the California Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He has an Engineering degree from the University of Chile and a Masters and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of British Columbia.  He has been on the faculty at the University of British Columbia and visiting professor at the London Business School and the University of California at Berkeley. Eduardo’s wide-ranging research has focused on different dimensions in asset and securities pricing.  Topics in recent years include interest rate models, asset allocation issues, evaluating natural resource investments, pricing internet companies, the stochastic behavior of commodity prices and valuing patent-protected R&D projects.  His collective works include more than 80 articles in finance and economic journals, two monographs, an edited book, and a large number of monograph chapters, conference proceedings, and special reports. Eduardo is the winner of a number of awards for both teaching excellence and the quality of his published work.  He has been associate editor for more than a dozen journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.  He is past president of the Western Finance Association and the American Finance Association.  He is a Fellow of the American Finance Association and the Financial Management Association International.  He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Eduardo was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alicante in Spain.  He has also been a consultant to governmental agencies, banks, investment banks and industrial corporations.