Martijn Cremers

Education

• Ph D, Stern School of Business, New York University, Finance
• MS, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Econometrics

Jobs

• Senior Research Associate, Ada Investments
• Associate Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

Expertise

• Investment Management
• Corporate Governance
• Mutual Funds
• Pension Funds
• Executive Compensation

Editorial Boards

• Editorial Board Member, European Financial Management (2012)
• Associate Editor, Review of Finance (2010 - 2010)
• Associate Editor, Review of Financial Studies (2009 - 2009)

• Second-place Winner, 2013 SPIVA (‘S&P Indices Versus Active’) Research Awards, SPIVA (‘S&P Indices Versus Active’) Research Awards (2014)
• Winner of the Best Academic Paper award at the 2014 annual corporate governance symposium , the University of Delaware’s John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance (2014)
• Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute, Research Grant, 2013-2014, Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute (2013)
• Q Group (The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance) Research Grant, 2013-2014 for “Patient Capital Outperformance”, Q Group (2013)
• Winner of the Journal of Investment Consulting’s 2013 academic paper competition for “Emerging Market Outperformance: Public‐Traded Affiliates of Multinational Corporations”, Journal of Investment Consulting (2013)
• Inquire Europe Research Grant for “Can Large Pension Funds Beat the Market? Asset Allocation, Market Timing, Security Selection and the Limits of Liquidity”, Inquire Europe (2012)
• Outstanding Investments Paper award for “Can Large Pension Funds Beat the Market?", Eastern Finance Association (2012)
• Pension Fund Research Grant, Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM, University of Toronto) (2012)
• Academic Competition Award (2nd place) for “Short-Term Trading and Stock Return Anomalies: Momentum, Reversal and Share Issuance”, Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) (2010)
• Distinguished Referee Award, Review of Financial Studies (2010)
• Inquire Europe Research Grant, Inquire Europe (2010)
• Pension Funds Research Grant, Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM, University of Toronto) (2010)
• Roger F. Murray Prize 2010 (3rd place) for the best paper presentation at the Q group conferences in 2009 for “Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation”, Q group (2010)
• Finalist for Wheeler Award for Quantitative and Behavioral Research in Finance for “Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation”, Numeric Investors (2008)
• Robert C. Clark Corporate Governance Fund Research Grant ($100,000, with Allen Ferrell) for coding data for “Thirty years of shareholder rights and firm valuation”, Harvard Law School (2008)
• Winner (first price) of the Wheeler Award for Quantitative and Behavioral Research in Finance, for “Deviations from Put-Call Parity and Stock Return Predictability”, Numeric Investors (2008)
• Crowell Memorial Prize Award (3rd place) for “Deviations from Put-Call Parity and Stock Return Predictability”, PanAgora Asset Management (2007)
• Best paper award at the 2006 Financial Research Association annual meeting in Las Vegas for “How active is your fund manager?”, Financial Research Association (2006)
• Finalist for the Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance in 2005, Journal of Finance (2006)
• BSI/Gamma Foundation Research Grant, BSI/Gamma Foundation (2002)
• Crowell Memorial Prize Award (2nd place), PanAgora Asset Management (2001)