David is a University Lecturer in Finance at Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He has a PhD from the LSE and was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, from 2005 to 2008. His research interests span IPOs, asset management and financial history and he has published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Economic History Review, Explorations in Economic History and the Journal of Portfolio Management. His research has been cited in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Nikkei Shimbun and covered by the BBC and Bloomberg TV.
He co-directs the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Judge Business School, which conducts research into long horizon investing. Prior to returning to full-time education in 2001, Dr Chambers worked for 20 years in investment banking at Barings, Hotchkis & Wiley and Merrill Lynch where he gained experience in asset management, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital in Europe, Japan and the United States.
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Keynes’ asset management: King’s College, 1921–1946: The British origins of the US endowment model
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- Financial Markets
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The returns to currency speculation: Evidence from Keynes the trader
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- International Finance