Erik Gilje

Erik Gilje is an assistant professor of finance at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focus is on financial institutions, empirical corporate finance, and energy finance.  He has received research support from the Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship program for his dissertation which focuses on the effect of financing frictions on the real economy.  Erik pursued his PhD studies at Boston College and has an undergraduate degree in engineering from Cornell University.