Patrick Blonien

Patrick Blonien is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.  He earned his Ph.D. in Finance at Rice University in 2024 and holds a B.B.A. in Business Fellows with secondary majors in Finance and Mathematics and a minor in Statistics from Baylor University in 2018.  

His solo work has received several accolades, including The Brattle Group Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research in 2023, the Finance Theory Group Summer School Best Paper Award (ex aequo) in 2023, and Runner-up for the Finance Theory Group Best Paper Award on the Job Market in 2024. His primary research area is financial market design, with work on the role of occasionally occurring fixed-price trading sessions and the benefits of market closures in the electronic era. Additionally, his secondary research agenda uses structural models to quantify the quality and extent of information in voting and trading.