K. Geert Rouwenhorst

 is Professor of Finance & Deputy Director of the International Center for Finance at Yale University. Rouwenhorst specializes in international finance and asset pricing. His research interests include business cycle theory, the empirical tradeoff between risk and return in developed and emerging stock markets, and portfolio choice. His recent work examines hedge fund strategies, mutual fund settlement, commodity investments, and the history of financial innovation. Rouwenhorst is a partner in Summerhaven Investment Management LLC, which specializes in commodity futures investment.

Papers
Rouwenhorst is the coauthor of a 2008 Roger F. Murray Prize winning paper, The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns.

He is the author/coauthor of the following most cited works, listed from most to least cited.

Books

 * William N. Goetzmann, ed. and K. Geert Rouwenhorst, ed., The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created the Modern Financial Markets (Oxford, 2005) ISBN 978-0195175714
 * William N. Goetzmann, ed., Catherine Labio, ed., K. Geert Rouwenhorst, ed., and Timothy G. Young, ed., The Great Mirror of Folly, Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720 (Yale University Press). ISBN 978-0300162462