Bruce Carlin is an Associate Professor of Finance at UCLA and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a noted expert in consumer finance, liquidity creation, and banking; his research interests include legal protection and strategic pricing in retail financial markets, liquidity crises, predatory trading, and regulation in banking markets. Additionally, Dr. Carlin has served as a testifying expert on damages in several litigation matters in the finance and healthcare industries.
Dr. Carlin is also a board-certified urologic surgeon who subspecialized in female urology. Before studying finance, he was an assistant professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. While practicing surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Dr. Carlin served as an expert and an expert witness in personal injury and medical malpractice cases. He also advised the hospital’s surgery department on capital budgeting and investment decisions.
Dr. Carlin was awarded the 2009 Eric and “E” Juline Faculty Excellence in Research Award and the 2008 George W. Robbins award for teaching excellence, both at UCLA. Dr. Carlin has also won several medical accolades for scientific research from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, the Cleveland Urologic Society, and the Ohio Urologic Society. He has published seminal work in top finance and medical journals and is frequently invited to address practitioners as well as academic audiences.
Education
PhD, Finance, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
MBA, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
MD, Northwestern University School of Medicine
BS, Premedical Studies, Northwestern University
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Practices
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Expertise
- Credit policy and underwriting analysis
- Equity, fixed-income, and derivatives securities valuation
- Fair lending and disparate impact analysis
- Game theory
- Medical economics
- Securities analysis
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Industries
- Banking and financial services
- Finance
- Hospitals
- Mortgage finance
