Chester Spatt

Pamela and Kenneth Dunn Professor of Finance

Tepper School of Business

  • Pamela and Kenneth Dunn Professor of Finance
    Tepper School of Business
  • 412-268-8834
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Decentralized Voting in Mutual Fund Families,”
    1 May 2026
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “The Traffic Light Effect in EGS Ratings,
    1 May 2026
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Unpacking Retail Trading Costs: the Role of Options Trading and Limit Order Usage,”
    1 Mar 2026
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Market Microstructure
    1 Jan 2026
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: Privacy-Enhanced Payment Systems
    1 Aug 2025
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: Retail Limit Orders
    1 Aug 2025
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: What Do Lead Banks Learn from Leveraged Loan Investors
    1 Aug 2025
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits,”
    1 Jun 2025
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Information Disclosure Frequency: Implications for Welfare and Cost of Capital” by Wen Chen and Yajun Wang
    1 May 2025 - 31 May 2025
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Panel on “The Consequences of AI Use on Society and Policy
    1 May 2025 - 31 May 2025
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Panel: “Challenges in Higher Education for the Next 50 Years
    1 May 2025 - 31 May 2025
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Organizer and Chair: Finance Session at Tepper School 75th Anniversary Weekend
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society Museum Committee
    1 Jan 2025
    Member
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Some Anonymous Options Trades are More Equal than Others” by Christopher Schwarz, Xing Huang, and Philippe Jorion
    1 Dec 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Climate Transition Risks and the Energy Sector” by Viral Acharya, Stefano Giglio, Stefano Pastore, Johannes Stroebel, Zhenhao Tao, and Tiffany Yong
    1 Nov 2024 - 30 Nov 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Financially Sophisticated Firms” by Lira Mota and Kerry Y. Siani
    1 Oct 2024 - 31 Oct 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Panel: Communicating Theory to Broader Audiences, Finance Theory Group
    1 Oct 2024 - 31 Oct 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Identifying the Portfolio Balance Mechanism” by Jefferson Durarte and Tarik Umar
    1 Jun 2024 - 30 Jun 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Anatomy of Trading Costs for Retail Investors: Savings from Off-Exchange Execution” by Thomas Brown, Travis Johnson, S.P. Kothari and Eric So
    1 Apr 2024 - 30 Apr 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Policy Panel - CMU Secure Blockchain Summit
    1 Apr 2024 - 30 Apr 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Panel: “Financial Stability, Post-Crisis Reforms and Complexity
    1 Mar 2024 - 31 Mar 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Panelist at SEC Investor Advisory Committee Meeting
    1 Mar 2024 - 31 Mar 2024
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Discussion: “Overtaking Mutual Funds: The Hidden Rise and Risk of Collective Investment Trusts” by Natalya Shnitser
    1 Feb 2024 - 29 Feb 2024
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    [Appointed to Executive Committee], Financial Economists Roundtable
    1 Jan 2024
    Member
  • OTHER SERVICE
    [Mentor} Finance Theory Group
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024