cookson
Professor
Finance • Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making

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Tony Cookson is a Professor of Finance at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado - Boulder.

After earning his bachelor's degree in economics and master's degrees in Statistics and Applied Economics from Montana State University, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago.  He has been on faculty at University of Colorado since 2013.

His research is empirical and covers a wide range of topics in finance and economics.  His research makes use of unique data sets and empirical settings to study how households and corporations make financial decisions.  Through his research, Dr. Cookson has become an expert on how investors use social media, the casino industry, the political economy of Native American reservations, and the consequences of the fracking revolution for households.  His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of FinanceJournal of Financial EconomicsReview of Financial Studies, the Journal of Law and Economics, and Management Science.  

Tony is an editor at the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, as well as an associate editor at the Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science. Since 2022, he has been a director of the Financial Research Association, which organizes a prominent academic finance research conference in Las Vegas annually.