ARES Announces Winner of the 2026 Michael J. Seiler Behavioral Research Commendation

American Real Estate Society Announces the Winner of the 2026 Michael J. Seiler Behavioral Research Commendation

JOHN Y. CAMPBELL

Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) is pleased to announce that John Y. Campbell, the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University, has been awarded the 2026 Michael J. Seiler Behavioral Research Commendation, created to attract and encourage top researchers from a wide array of disciplines to focus their research efforts towards expanding knowledge in the area of behavioral real estate. Professor Campbell will be given the award and the monetary prize at the 2026 ARES Annual Meeting in San Destin, FL, from March 24-28, 2026.

Professor Campbell has published over 100 articles in top Finance and Economics journals on various aspects of finance and macroeconomics, including fixed-income securities, equity valuation, portfolio choice, and household finance. His books include Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone (with Tarun Ramadorai, PUP 2025) and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (with Andrew Lo and Craig MacKinlay, PUP 1997).

John Campbell served as President of the American Finance Association in 2005. He is a Research Associate and former Director of the Program in Asset Pricing at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and holds honorary doctorates from BI Norwegian Business School, the University of Maastricht, the University of Paris Dauphine, and Copenhagen Business School. Campbell co-founded and serves on the board of Arrowstreet Capital, LP, a Boston-based quantitative asset management company.

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