Yael Hochberg

Yael Hochberg
Alma mater	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Stanford University
Occupation	Economist
Employer	Rice University

Yael Hochberg is an American economist known for her research in venture capital, accelerators, corporate governance, compensation policy, and the financing of entrepreneurial activity. She is the Ralph S. O’Connor Professor of Entrepreneurship and a professor of finance at Rice University.

Early Life

Yael Hochberg graduated from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and she earned both an MA in Economics and a PhD in Finance from Stanford University.

Career

Prior to her current positions as the Head of the Entrepreneurship Initiative at Rice University and Academic Director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, Hochberg was on the faculty at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. She now holds a Research Affiliate position at the MIT Sloan School of Management, but Hochberg was previously a visiting faculty member at the school. She is also currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Outside of university academics, Hochberg is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Managing Director of the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project, and Associate Editor at the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Empirical Finance.

Hochberg was named one of the world's 40 under 40 best business school professors by Poets & Quants in 2015. She received the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship in 2016.

Selected Publications

Hochberg has contributed to many publications including:

• Hochberg, Yael V. (September 6, 2011). "Venture Capital and Corporate Governance in the Newly Public Firm". Review of Finance. 16 (2). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Hochberg, Yael; Ljungqvist, Alexander; Lu, Yang (September 2005). "Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance". Journal of Finance. 62 (1). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Hochberg, Yael V.; Lindsey, Laura Anne (April 28, 2009). "Incentives, Targeting and Firm Performance: An Analysis of Non-Executive Stock Options". Review of Financial Studies. 23 (11). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Hochberg, Yael V.; Serrano, Carlos J.; Ziedonis, Rosemarie Ham (October 7, 2014). "Patent Collateral, Investor Commitment, and the Market for Venture Lending". Journal of Financial Economics. 130 (1). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Aggarwal, Dhruv; Eldar, Ofer; Hochberg, Yael V.; Litov, Lubomir P. (November 23, 2021). "The Rise of Dual-Class Stock IPOs". Journal of Financial Economics. 144 (1). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Hochberg, Yael V.; Ljungqvist, Alexander; Lu, Yang (June 30, 2009). "Networking as a Barrier to Entry and the Competitive Supply of Venture Capital". Journal of Finance. 65 (3). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Hochberg, Yael V.; Ljungqvist, Alexander; Vissing-Jorgensen, Annette (October 16, 2012). "Informational Hold-Up and Performance Persistence in Venture Capital". Review of Financial Studies. 27 (1). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Hochberg, Yael V.; Lindsey, Laura Anne; Westerfield, Mark M. (February 1, 2015). "Resource Accumulation Through Economic Ties: Evidence from Venture Capital". Journal of Financial Economics. 118 (2). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Ang, Andrew; Gu, Li; Hochberg, Yael V. (October 25, 2005). "Is IPO Underperformance a Peso Problem?". Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 42 (3). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
• Hochberg, Yael V.; Sapienza, Paola; Vissing-Jorgensen, Annette (January 25, 2007). "A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002". Journal of Accounting Research. 47 (2). Retrieved 19 May 2023.

References

Category:Living people Category:Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Category:Stanford University alumni Category:Rice University faculty Category:National Bureau of Economic Research research associate