By Lacie Blankenship
Vanderbilt Business welcomes Daniel Bias, Assistant Professor of Finance, as one of 6 new additions to the faculty, effective fall 2022.
Bias’ research interests include entrepreneurial finance, as well as labor and finance. Currently, Bias investigates the economic consequences of startups staying private longer and the decreasing number of public firms.
“I am interested in studying where finance and the real world intersect,” says Bias. “Studying how entrepreneurs engage with capital and financial decisions is especially interesting to me. I also enjoy exploring the connections between firms’ financial decisions and employees.”
In a recent paper, Bias shows that the trend of innovative startups delaying their IPOs can impose an externality on the broader economy by trapping employees in sub-optimal employer matches.
Bias comes to Vanderbilt from the Swedish House of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics, where he was a Wallenberg Post-doctoral Fellow. Before pursuing academia, Bias worked as a Data Scientist.
“I am thrilled to join the renowned faculty at Vanderbilt Owen,” says Bias. “The community here [at Vanderbilt] is uniquely collaborative, and it is a pleasure to join it.”
Bias completed his PhD in Finance at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), visiting the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received his MS in Finance and Information Management from TUM and the University of Augsburg and earned a BA in Business Economics from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
This year, Bias is teaching Corporate Valuation and Managerial Finance.
He was recognized with the Ernst Otto Fischer-Teaching Award for ‘Most Innovative Teaching Concept’ at TUM, where he served as a teaching assistant for Corporate Finance and Energy Markets classes.
“I am excited to prepare our talented students for future roles as leaders and experts in the industry,” says Bias. “My teaching aims to create long-lasting learning experiences that accompany the students throughout their career.”
