Matthew Wynter
Assistant Professor
Finance
Education: PhD Finance, Ohio State, 2014; MA Business, Ohio State, 2011; MA International Commerce and Policy, George Mason, 2008; BA Economics, Political Science, UNC, 2006
Bio
Dr. Matthew Wynter is a financial economist who studies how social and psychological structures influence financial decisions. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, World Economy, and the Journal of Portfolio Management. He earned Best Paper awards in Corporate Finance from the Society for Financial Studies (2023) and in Seniors Housing from the American Real Estate Society (2026).
Dr. Wynter’s work has been featured in Bloomberg, Businessweek, MSNBC, and FOX, and presented at the Brookings Institution, the SEC, Federal Reserve, American Economic Association, the American Accounting Association, the China International Conference in Finance, and the Financial Management Association.
He earned his Ph.D. in finance from The Ohio State University in 2014. He previously served as a visiting scholar with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Litigation Economics from 2018 to 2020, and as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he received the Dean’s Letter of Outstanding Teaching in 2017. In 2022, he received the Thank a Teacher Award from Stony Brook University's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Most recently, he was nominated for the Best Paper in Asset Pricing at the Financial Management Association in 2026.