Jennifer Carpenter

Who is Jennifer Carpenter?

Jennifer N. Carpenter is a finance academic best known for her pioneering research into executive stock options. Other interests include fund manager compensation, survivorship bias, corporate bonds, and option pricing. She has been published in numerous journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Business.

She is an Associate Professor at NYU's School of Business where she teaches MBA courses in debt instruments and markets, and at the PhD level, continuous time asset pricing and portfolio choice. She also teaches for the Master of Science in Global Finance, which is a joint program between Stern and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before joining NYU, Carpenter worked at Goldman Sachs & Co in the fixed income division, and she was also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.

Carpenter received her BS in Economics, MA in Finance, MA in Mathematics, and PhD in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania.