Pegaret Pichler

Assistant Professor in the Brandeis International Business School

Departments/Programs

International Business School

Degrees

Stanford University, Ph.D.

Expertise

Pegaret Pichler is an expert in corporate finance and valuation.

Profile

Pegaret Pichler obtained her PhD at Stanford University in the department of Engineering-Economic Systems, now named Management Science and Engineering. She has taught finance at a number of universities, including Boston College, Brandeis University, Brown University, Northeastern University, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. Her research has been published in a number of top finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Finance. Much of her research is in the area of corporate finance. She is currently working on a project that examines the interaction of firms' ESG (environmental, social, governance) profiles, their use of social media, and their stock valuations. Professor Pichler is currently teaching a course titled Social Impact Investing at Brandeis University.

Courses Taught

ECON	171a	Financial Economics
ECON	399a	Dissertation Workshop
FIN	203a	Financial Management
FIN	234a	Social Impact Investing

Scholarship

Pichler, Pegaret and Nicole Boyson. "Hostile Resistance to Hedge Fund Activism." Review of Financial Studies 32. 2 (2019): 771-817.

Pichler, Pegaret and Robert Mooradian. "Servicer Contracts and the Design of Mortgage-Backed Security Pools." Real Estate Economics 46. 3 (2018): 698-738.