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Meet our new faculty: Peter Maxted, finance

Peter Maxted is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty

Peter Maxted headshot

Peter Maxted is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty. (Photo courtesy Peter Maxted)

Name: Peter Maxted (he/him)
Discipline: Finance
Degrees: B.A., economics, Swarthmore, 2014; Ph.D., economics, Harvard, 2021
Research interests: Finance, macroeconomics, and behavioral economics, with a particular focus on understanding the causes of financial crises
Hobbies: Playing/watching sports and exploring food in the Bay Area.