Mathias Kronlund is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Paul M. Van Arsdell, Sr. Fellow at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
His work sits at the intersection of empirical corporate finance and financial institutions, with recent projects on mutual funds, credit markets, corporate investment, and payout and cash policy. A central theme in several of his recent papers is how short-term performance pressures on asset managers and corporations shape decisions and affect long-run outcomes.
His articles have been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. His research has received multiple best paper awards, has been cited by policymakers in the U.S. and Europe, and has been covered in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal. He has presented his work at more than 30 universities, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), several Federal Reserve Banks, and at leading finance conferences worldwide.
At Illinois, he teaches Empirical Asset Pricing (Ph.D.) and Advanced Corporate Finance (undergraduate) and has been recognized multiple times for teaching excellence.
Outside academia, he enjoys training for triathlons, performing classical music, and backcountry skiing.