Invesco Professor of Finance
Co-Director of the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM)
Fellow of Clare College
BA (University of Oxford), MSc (London Business School), MSc and PhD (London School of Economics)
Research interests
Empirical corporate finance, especially IPOs; asset management, particularly in relation to endowments and foundations; financial history; and law and finance.
Subject group: Finance
Professional experience
Prior to returning to full-time education in 2001, Professor Chambers worked for 20 years in investment banking at Barings, Hotchkis & Wiley and Merrill Lynch. He gained experience in asset management, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital in Europe, Japan and the United States. Professor Chambers is Academic Director of the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, an Associate Director of the Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Financial Analysts Journal.
Previous appointments
Professor Chambers was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, from 2005 to 2008, and taught on the Masters in Financial Economics and the MBA programmes at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Awards & honours
- Best Paper in Asset Pricing and Investments Award (for “Currency regimes and the carry trade” with Olivier Accominotti, Jason Cen and Ian Marsh), FMA European Conference, 2018
- Cambridge Judge Business School Teaching Award, 2017
- Financial Analysts Journal Graham & Dodd Best Perspectives Award (for the paper “The British origins of the endowment model, with Elroy Dimson), 2015
- Keynes Fellowship, University of Cambridge, 2013
- “The Norway Model” voted ‘Outstanding Article’ by the readers of the Journal of Portfolio Management (with Elroy Dimson and Antti Ilmanen), 2013
- Thomas K. McCraw Fellow, Harvard Business School, Fall 2012
- Ashton Prize for the best article in the last two years by an early career researcher published in The Economic History Review (for “Gentlemanly capitalism revisited”), 2011
- Coller Institute of Private Equity Research Award, 2007
- Economic History Society New Researcher Prize, 2005
Selected publications
Here are a selection of David Chambers’ publications. Please see the “Selected publications” tab above for a more comprehensive list.
Chambers, D., Spaenjers, C. and Steiner, E. (2021) “The rate of return on real estate: long-run micro-level evidence.” Review of Financial Studies, 34(8): 3572-3607 (DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhab028)
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Spaenjers, C. (2020) “Art as an asset: evidence from Keynes the collector.” Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 10(3): 490–520 (DOI: 10.1093/rapstu/raaa001)
Accominotti, O., Cen, J., Chambers, D. and Marsh, I.W. (2019) “Currency regimes and the carry trade.” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54(5): 2233-2260 (DOI: 10.1017/S002210901900019X)
Chambers, D., Schill, M. and Sarkissian, S. (2018) “Market and regional segmentation and risk premia in the first era of financial globalization.” Review of Financial Studies, 31(10): 4063-4098 (DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhx143) (also available online via the SSRN)
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Foo, J. (2015) “Keynes the stock market investor: a quantitative analysis.” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 50(4): 843-868 (DOI: 10.1017/S0022109015000186) (available online via the SSRN)
Chambers, D. and Dimson, E. (2009) “IPO underpricing over the very long-run.” Journal of Finance, 64(3): 1407-1443 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01468.x)
Journal articles
Chambers, D. (2009) “Gentlemanly capitalism revisited: a case study of the underpricing of initial public offerings on the London Stock Exchange, 1946-86.” Economic History Review, 62(1): 31-56
Chambers, D. and Dimson, E. (2009) “IPO underpricing over the very long-run.” Journal of Finance, 64(3): 1407-1443 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01468.x)
Chambers, D. (2010) “Going public in interwar Britain.” Financial History Review, 17(1): 51-71 (DOI: 10.1017/S0968565009990163)
Mitchell, B., Chambers, D. and Crafts, N. (2011) “How good was the profitability of British railways, 1870-1912?” Economic History Review, 64(3): 798-831 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00550.x)
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Ilmanen, A. (2012) “The Norway model.” Journal of Portfolio Management, 38(2): 67-81 (DOI: 10.3905/jpm.2012.38.2.067)
Cheffins, B.R, Koustas D.K. and Chambers, D. (2013) “Ownership dispersion and the London Stock Exchange’s ‘two-thirds rule’: an empirical test.” Business History, 55(4): 667-690 (DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2012.741969) (available online via the SSRN)
Burhop, C., Chambers, D. and Cheffins, B.R. (2014) “Regulating IPOs: evidence from going public in London, 1900-1913.” Explorations in Economic History, 51: 60-76 (DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2013.07.003)
Chambers D. and Dimson E. (2013) “Retrospectives: John Maynard Keynes, investment innovator.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 213-228 (available online via the SSRN)
Chambers, D. and Esteves, R. (2014) “The first global emerging markets investor: Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust 1880-1913.” Explorations in Economic History, 52: 1-21 (DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2013.08.004)
Chambers, D. and Dimson, E. (2015) “The British origins of the US endowment model.” Financial Analysts Journal, 71(2): 10-14 (DOI: 10.2469/faj.v71.n2.7) (available online via the SSRN)
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Foo, J. (2015) “Keynes the stock market investor: a quantitative analysis.” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 50(4): 843-868 (DOI: 10.1017/S0022109015000186) (available online via the SSRN)
Chambers, D. and Kabiri, A. (2016) “Keynes and Wall Street.” Business History Review, 90(4): 301-328 (DOI: 10.1017/S0007680516000362)
Accominotti, O. and Chambers, D. (2016) “If you’re so smart: John Maynard Keynes and currency speculation in the interwar years.” Journal of Economic History, 76 (2): 342-386 (DOI: 10.1017/S0022050716000589)
Chambers, D. and Dimson, E. (2016) “The master’s choice.” London Business School Review, 27(2): 38-39 (DOI: 10.1111/2057-1615.12117)
Chambers, D., Schill, M. and Sarkissian, S. (2018) “Market and regional segmentation and risk premia in the first era of financial globalization.” Review of Financial Studies, 31(10): 4063-4098 (DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhx143) (also available online via the SSRN)
Accominotti, O., Cen, J., Chambers, D. and Marsh, I.W. (2019) “Currency regimes and the carry trade.” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54(5): 2233-2260 (DOI: 10.1017/S002210901900019X)
Atta-Darkua, V., Chambers, D., Dimson, E., Ran, Z. and Yu, T. (2020) “Strategies for responsible investing: emerging academic evidence.” Journal of Portfolio Management, 46(3): 26-35 (DOI: 10.3905/jpm.2020.46.3.026)
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Kaffe, C. (2020) “Seventy-five years of investing for future generations.” Financial Analysts Journal, 76(4): 5-21 (DOI: 10.1080/0015198X.2020.1802984)
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Quigley, E. (2020) “To divest or to engage? A case study of investor responses to climate activism.” The Journal of Investing, 29(2): 10-20 (DOI: 10.3905/joi.2020.1.114)
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Spaenjers, C. (2020) “Art as an asset: evidence from Keynes the collector.” Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 10(3): 490–520 (DOI: 10.1093/rapstu/raaa001)
Chambers, D. and Saleuddin, R. (2020) “Commodity option pricing efficiency before Black, Scholes, and Merton.” Economic History Review, 73(2): 540-564 (DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12935)
Atta-Darkua, V., Chambers, D., Dimson, E., Ran, Z. and Yu, T. (2021) “Practical applications of strategies for responsible investing: emerging academic evidence.” Practical Applications, 8(4): 1-8 (DOI: 10.3905/pa.8.4.421)
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Ilmanen, A. (2021) “The Norway model in perspective.” Journal of Portfolio Management, 47(5): 178-187 (DOI: 10.3905/jpm.2021.1.230)
Chambers, D., Spaenjers, C. and Steiner, E. (2021) “The rate of return on real estate: long-run micro-level evidence.” Review of Financial Studies (DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhab028) (published online Mar 2021) (available online via the SSRN)
Book chapters
Chambers, D., Dimson, E. and Foo, J. (2015) “Keynes, King’s and endowment asset management.” In: Brown, J.R. and Hoxby, C.M. (eds.) How the financial crisis and great recession affected higher education: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp.127-150
Working papers
Chambers, D., Sarkissian, S. and Schill, M.J. (2012) “Market and regional segmentation and risk premia in the first era of financial globalization.” Social Science Research Network Working Paper.
Accominotti, O. and Chambers, D. (2014) “Out-of-sample evidence on the returns to currency trading.” Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Papers, No.DP9852. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research. (Also available online via the SSRN)
