Terrance Odean

Terrance Odean is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business at the Uniiversity of California, Berkeley. He earned a B.A. in Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. He taught finance at U.C. Davis from 1997 through 2001.

As an undergraduate at Berkeley, Odean studied judgment and decision making with Daniel Kahneman. This led to his current research focus on how psychologically motivated decisions affect investor welfare and securities prices. His research has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Barron's, Forbes, Business Week, Smart Money, Bloomberg Personal, Worth, Kipplinger's Personal Finance, and several other publications. While studying for his Ph.D., Odean worked at Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors and IRIS Financial Engineering, and co-owned a seat on the Pacific Stock Exchange. During the summer of 1970, he drove a yellow cab in New York City.