Matthew Ringgenberg is a Professor of Finance at the University of Utah.  He is an expert on the role of institutional investors in financial markets and an award winning teacher and researcher.  His research has examined how the actions of short-sellers, hedge funds, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds interact with various frictions to affect real economic activity and the formation of asset prices. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies and has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.