Gideon Saar

Biography

Gideon Saar is Dr. Philip and Rosalyn Baron Professor of Management and professor of finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research interests are in market microstructure, behavioral finance, and stock market return predictability. His current research focuses on high-frequency trading, using individual investor trading to predict returns, how transparency of markets affects traders, and information incorporation into prices around corporate events.

Saar has been published in the leading finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Financial Markets. He was previously on the faculty of the Stern School of Business at New York University. In addition to his doctorate in finance, he holds an undergraduate degree in finance and a master's degree in economics. At the request of the New York Stock Exchange, Saar spent the 2001-2002 academic year as the NYSE's visiting research economist. Saar is a co-editor of the Journal of Financial Markets and a member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Selected Publications

• Saar, Gideon; Sun, Jian; Yang, Ron; Zhu, Haoxiang. "From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?"Review of Financial Studies. 36.2 (2023): 678-732
• O'Hara, Maureen; Saar, Gideon; Zhong, Zhuo. "Relative Tick Size and the Trading Environment"Review of Asset Pricing Studies. 9.1 (2019): 47-90
• Boehmer, Ekkehart; Li, Dan; Saar, Gideon. "The Competitive Landscape of High-frequency Trading Firms"Review of Financial Studies. 31.6 (2018): 2227-2276
• Bloomfield, Robert J.; O'Hara, Maureen; Saar, Gideon. "Hidden Liquidity: Some New Light on Dark Trading"Journal of Finance. 70.5 (2015): 2227-2274
• Chordia, Tarun; Goyal, Amit; Lehmann, Bruce; Saar, Gideon. "High-Frequency Trading"Journal of Financial Markets. 16.4 (2013): 637-645
• Kaniel, Ron; Liu, Shuming; Saar, Gideon; Titman, Sheridan. "Individual Investor Trading and Return Patterns around Earnings Announcements"Journal of Finance. 67.2 (2012): 639-680
• Linnainmaa, Juhani; Saar, Gideon. "Lack of Anonymity and the Inference from Order Flow"Review of Financial Studies, Ed. David Hirshleifer. 25.5 (2012): 1414-1456
• Hasbrouck, Joel; Saar, Gideon. "Technology and Liquidity Provision: The Blurring of Traditional Definitions"Journal of Financial Markets. 12.2 (2009): 143-172
• Bloomfield, Robert J.; O'Hara, Maureen; Saar, Gideon. "How Noise Trading Affects Markets: An Experimental Analysis"Review of Financial Studies. 22.6 (2009): 2275-2302
• Kaniel, Ron; Saar, Gideon; Titman, Sheridan. "Individual Investor Trading and Stock Returns"Journal of Finance. 63.1 (2008): 273-310

Awards and Honors

• Core Faculty Award for the One-Year MBA Program (2019) Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
• Faculty Research Award (2014 - 2015)
• Best Paper Prize (2012) Conference on Current Topics in Financial Regulations

Recent Courses

• HADM 3230 - Introduction to Investments
• AEM 4670/AEM 5670 - Investments

Academic Degrees

• PhD Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 2000
• MA Cornell University, 1996
• BBA Baruch College, City University of New York, 1994