Andrew Winton has been at the Finance Department of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management since 1998. He was at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management from 1991 to 1998. He received an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1980, an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. Before entering academia, he worked from 1982 to 1987 in the asset/liability management department of CoreStates Financial Corp.
Winton’s teaching and research focus on corporate finance, financial contracts, and financial institutions. Some of his current research topics are how banks' monitoring of loans affects borrower fraud incentives, banks' tradeoffs between reputation concerns and loan retention as incentives to screen or monitor borrowers, and how banks' retained loan shares vary over time. He has published in all of the top-ranked finance journals and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation and Journal of Money, Credit & Banking.