Sam Kruger
Associate Professor
Department: Finance
Research Areas: Asset Pricing, Finance - Corporate, Real Estate Finance
Biography
Sam Kruger is an associate professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. His research interests include financial intermediation, household finance, real estate, corporate finance, and asset pricing.
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP & AWARDS
2023 |
CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors |
2021 |
McCombs Research Excellence Grant |
2019 |
McCombs Research Excellence Grant |
2018 |
University of Texas Society for Teaching Excellence |
2017 |
McCombs Research Excellence Grant |
2016 |
McCombs Research Excellence Grant |
Publications
Samuel Kruger, Gonzalo Maturana, and Jordan Nickerson. August 2023. How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance? Review of Financial Studies.36(8): 3348-3381.
John M. Griffin, Samuel Kruger, and Prateek Mahajan. June 2023. Did Fin Tech Lenders Facilitate PPP Fraud? Journal of Finance 78(3): 1777-1827.
John M. Griffin, Nicholas Hirschey, and Samuel Kruger. April 2023. Do Municipal Bond Dealers Give their Customers ‘Fair and Reasonable’ Pricing? Journal of Finance 78(2): 887-934.
Samuel Kruger and Gonzalo Maturana. 2021. Collateral Misreporting in the Residential Mortgage-Backed Security Market. Management Science 67(4), 2729-2750.
Samuel Kruger. 2021. High Aversion to Stochastic Time Preference Shocks and Counterfactual Long-Run Risk in the Albuquerque et al. Valuation Risk Model. Critical Finance Review 10(3), 383-408.
John M. Griffin, Samuel Kruger, and Gonzalo Maturana. 2021. What Drove the 2003-2006 House Price Boom and Subsequent Collapse? Disentangling Competing Explanations. Journal of Financial Economics 141(3), 1007-1035.
John M. Griffin, Samuel Kruger, and Gonzalo Maturana. 2019. Do Labor Markets Discipline? Evidence from RMBS Bankers. Journal of Financial Economics 133(3), 726-750.
John M. Griffin, Samuel Kruger, and Gonzalo Maturana. 2019. Personal Infidelity and Professional Conduct in 4 Settings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 116(33), 16268-16273.
Samuel Kruger. 2018. The Effect of Mortgage Securitization on Foreclosure and Modification. Journal of Financial Economics 129(3), 586-607.