Erik J Mayer

Erik J. Mayer is an assistant professor of finance at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. His research interests include financial institutions, household finance and empirical corporate finance. His recent work studies racial disparities in households’ access to credit and the role of credit access in intergenerational economic mobility. Mayer received his doctorate in finance from Rice University in 2018, where he also earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematical economic analysis in 2012.