Dr. Amnon Levy heads the group responsible for research development and quantitative services related to Moody’s Analytics portfolio and balance sheet solutions.

Amnon has a BA in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. Prior to joining Moody’s Analytics, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. He has also taught corporate finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is currently teaching a course on credit risk in the Haas School of Business MFE program.

Amnon has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Journal of Risk Model Validation. His current research interests include the impact of credit in ALM, and unifying the management of regulatory capital, economic risks, and the impact of accounting rules.

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