John Beshears conducts empirical research on the financial decisions of firms and households, with a particular focus on understanding how economic outcomes are influenced by the institutional environment in which choices are made. In recent work, he has studied the performance of corporate alliances among oil and gas firms, the impact of changes in disclosure on individual portfolio decisions, and the effect of exposure to peer-related information on retirement savings.

John Beshears is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received an AB in Economics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University and earned a PhD in Business Economics in 2009, also from Harvard. During the 2009-2010 academic year, he was a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. John has obtained grants and fellowships from the National Institute on Aging, the Social Security Administration, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.