Alexander Zentefis is the John Stauffer National Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Zentefis earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in finance from The University of Chicago.
Zentefis studies the structure of institutions, ranging from organizations to markets. His research on organizations includes articles on corporate culture, gerrymandering, and the theory of the firm. His work on markets includes articles on bank competition, inequality in bank access, regulation of oligopolies, linguistic patterns in bargaining, and capital market liquidity.
Zentefis’ research has been featured in national news outlets, including MarketWatch and Forbes.