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Richard H. Stanton - Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES

Richard H. Stanton

Professor | Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES

Leading expert on mortgage markets

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Areas of Expertise (4)

Mortgage and Lease Markets

Term Structure Modeling

Mutual Funds and Risk Management

Employee Stock Options (ESOs)

About

Richard Stanton is a Professor of Finance and Real Estate and holds the Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business at Berkeley Haas. His main research interests are mortgage and lease markets, term structure modeling, mutual funds and risk management, and employee stock options (ESOs).

Education (2)

Cambridge University (Jesus College): BA, Mathematics 1984

Stanford Graduate School of Business: PhD, Finance 1992

Honors & Awards (12)

Financial Management best paper prize

For “CMBS Subordination, Ratings Inflation, and Regulatory Capital Arbitrage” 2018

Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award, MFE Program

Course: Fixed Income 2013

Nomination for Journal of Finance Brattle best corporate-finance paper prize

For “Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure” 2010

Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Undergraduate Program

2007

Nomination for Journal of Finance Smith-Breeden best-paper prize

For “Managerial Ability, Compensation and the Closed-End Fund Discount” 2007

Best Paper award, Utah Winter Finance conference

Awarded for “A Liquidity-Based Model of Closed-End Funds” 2006

Schwabacher Fellowship

1996

Q Group Research Award

1994

UC Berkeley Junior Faculty Research Grant

1993-1994

Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Undergraduate Program)

1993

AACSB Doctoral Fellowship

1989

Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Overseas Studentship

1986-1989

Positions Held (1)

At Haas since 1991

2008 – present, Professor, Haas School of Business 1998 – 2008, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business 1991 – 1998, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business

Media Appearances (16)

The AI-Bias Problem And How Fintechs Should Be Fighting It: A Deep-Dive With Sam Farao

Forbes  online

2021-09-29

Prof. Nancy Wallace, the Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate and Capital Markets, and co-chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics; Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, the Soloman P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics; and Prof. Richard Stanton, Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business, co-authored research that found discrimination by both face-to-face and online lenders. The research found that both kinds of lenders charge higher interest rates to African American and Latino borrowers, with subsequently higher profits.

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Black Homebuyers Today Pay An Unequal Price

NPR - All Things Considered  radio

2021-05-07

After the 2008 financial crisis, mortgage backers began charging more to borrowers with lower credit scores and less wealth—a practice that disproportionately affects Black homebuyers in America. Research by professors Nancy Wallace, the Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate and Capital Markets; Richard Stanton, Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business; and Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, the Soloman P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics (on leave), found that fintech lenders who use algorithms to determine mortgages are just as bad as traditional mortgage operations in charging higher rates to African American and Latino loan-seekers.

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Can Digital Mortgage Platforms Reduce Discrimination in Lending?

DNYUZ  online

2020-09-18

Fintech algorithms discriminated 40 percent less than face-to-face lenders when issuing loans to borrowers, according to research by Prof. Nancy Wallace, Prof. Richard Stanton, and Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse. "Discrimination is definitely falling, and it corresponds to the rise in competition between fintech lenders and regular lenders," said Wallace, Chair of the Real Estate Group and Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate Capital Markets.

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Why Corporations' Responses To George Floyd Protests Matter

S&P Global Ratings  online

2020-07-23

While companies like to call out their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, discrimination is often built into systems. Minorities are discriminated against by lenders, according to research by Prof. Nancy Wallace, the Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate Capital Markets, and co-chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics; Prof. Richard Stanton, the Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business; and Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, Soloman P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics.

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UC Berkeley professors suggest mortgage crisis may be imminent amid coronavirus pandemic

Daily Californian  online

2020-04-21

Prof. Nancy Wallace, chair of the Real Estate Group and the Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate Capital Markets, and co-chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, and Prof. Richard Stanton, the Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business, have argued that narratives surrounding the 2008 recession typically focus on the housing bubble, while the role of nonbank financial institutions in the crisis is understated. That could also be the case now as the economy heads towards recession. "The fundamental problem is the same, since as in 2007 we also saw large scale bankruptcy amongst nonbank lenders," Wallace said.

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This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry

The New York Times  online

2019-12-11

Jimmy Kennedy earned $13 million during his nine-year career as a player in the National Football League. He was the kind of person most banks would be happy to have as a client.

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Bad, biased, and unethical uses of AI

The Enterprisers Project  online

2019-08-29

Looking at cases of unethical uses of AI can help managers avoid pitfalls. One such case was studied by Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, Soloman P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics; Prof. Nancy Wallace, the Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate Capital Markets; and Prof. Richard Stanton, Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business. In looking at online housing lenders, they found that even if the people writing the algorithms intended to create neutral systems, they've ended up discriminating against minority borrowers.

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Can algorithms be racist? Trump’s housing department says no

Reveal  online

2019-08-05

A new rule would would make it nearly impossible for banks, landlords, or insurance companies to be sued when their algorithms result in people of color being disproportionately denied housing. But algorithms aren't necessarily unbiased. Research by Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, Prof. Nancy Wallace, and Prof. Richard Stanton has found that online lenders habitually charged borrowers of color higher interest rates than white borrowers with similar credit profiles.

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Knowing the “Value” of Our Data Won’t Fix Our Privacy Problems

Electronic Frontier Foundation  online

2019-07-15

Policies have been proposed that would put a dollar value on the data that companies collect from users. But that's not enough to protect consumers. For example, research by Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, Prof. Richard Stanton, Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business, and Prof. Nancy Wallace, Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate Capital Markets, has found that data on potential borrowers was used to discriminate against non-white customers by online mortgage firms.

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Berkeley Haas’s Morse: FinTech Also Practices Housing Discrimination

Poets & Quants  online

2019-05-06

Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse of the Haas Finance Group, Prof. Richard Stanton, Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business, and Prof. Nancy Wallace, Professor and Chair of the Real Estate Group, found that fintech lenders who use algorithms to determine mortgages are just as bad as traditional mortgage operations in discriminating against African American and Hispanic loan-seekers.

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Digital mortgages are here, but some buyers are hesitant to use them. Here's what you should know.

Chicago Tribune  online

2019-01-23

Algorithmic bias is replacing human bias in mortgage lending, according to research by professors Richard Stanton, Nancy Wallace, and Adair Morse.

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Women can benefit more from stock options study reveals

Wealth Professional Canada  online

2019-01-10

Work by professors Richard Stanton and Nancy Wallace has found that options awarded to women cost companies 2 percent-4 percent more than those given to men. Senior managers also cost more than lower-ranking colleagues. The difference comes from how long the employees hold them.

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Women Hold Onto Stock Options Longer—and Reap the Benefits

Fortune  online

2019-01-08

Women hold onto their stock options longer than men—which can mean employers pay out more, according to work by professors Richard Stanton and Nancy Wallace.

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Non-bank firms are now big players in America’s mortgage market

The Economist  online

2018-11-29

As interest rates rise and the housing market stutters, regulators are again pondering the risks from the mortgage market—this time from a shift towards non-bank originators. A recent paper by Professors Nancy Wallace and Richard Stanton warned of the risks posed by non-bank US mortgage lenders, who now represent a large percent of all real estate loans. When banks stopped lending during the financial crisis, the number of mortgage companies fell by half, and non-bank lenders stepped in. Little is known about the finances of these private lenders, and their finances may be fragile.

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Online lending hasn't removed discrimination, study shows

CNBC  online

2018-11-27

A study by Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, Prof. Richard Stanton, and Prof. Nancy Wallace, found that both online and face-to-face lenders charge higher interest rates to black and Latino borrowers.

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How some algorithm lending programs discriminate against minorities

NPR - Morning Edition  radio

2018-11-24

Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary discusses work by Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, Prof. Richard Stanton, and Prof. Nancy Wallace, that found a bias in lending: for people with similar qualifications applying for home loans, race did play a factor.

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Selected Papers & Publications (6)

Mortgage Loan-Flow Networks and Financial Norms


Review of Financial Studies

R. Stanton, J. Walden and N. Wallace

2017

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CMBS Subordination, Ratings Inflation, and Regulatory-Capital Arbitrage


Financial Management

R. Stanton and N. Wallace

2017

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Financial Flexibility, Bank Capital Flows, and Asset Prices


Journal of Finance

R. Stanton, C. Parlour and J. Walden

2012

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Estimation of Dynamic Term Structure Models


Quarterly Journal of Finance

R. Stanton and G. Duffee

2012

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The Bear’s Lair: Indexed Credit Default Swaps and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis


Review of Financial Studies

R. Stanton and N. Wallace

2011

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Revisiting Asset Pricing Puzzles in an Exchange Economy


Review of Financial Studies

Richard Stanton, Christine A. Parlour, and Johan Walden

2011

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Teaching (3)

Introduction to Finance

MBA 203

Continuous-Time Finance

PhD 239B

Fixed Income Markets

MFE 230I

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