Alexander David, University of Calgary

Research

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Energy Decision Making

Latest funding

The Effects of Subjective Beliefs and Disagreement on Financial Markets
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$73,495
The Implications of Heterogeneous Beliefs for Financial Markets and the Real Economy
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$115,000
Managing Business Risk in the Canadian Oil and Gas Industry: Multiple Perspectives
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$96,250

All 6 grants and awards

No publications available.

The Effects of Subjective Beliefs and Disagreement on Financial Markets

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: David, Alexander

Keywords: beliefs; disagreement; extrapolation; options exercise; state prices

$73,495

The Implications of Heterogeneous Beliefs for Financial Markets and the Real Economy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: David, Alexander

Keywords: dispersion of beliefs; cross section of stock returns; flight-to-quality; rollover strategies with short term futures; term premiums; optimism of financial intermediaries; capital accumulation for project appraisal; financial crises; deep recessions

$115,000

Managing Business Risk in the Canadian Oil and Gas Industry: Multiple Perspectives

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Anderson, Mark C.

Keywords: cyclical industries; risk management; oil and gas industry; industry economic cycles; strategic management; investment timing; debt and collateral; human resource management; downsizing; cost and supply chain management

$96,250

Financial decision making, monetary policy, and asset prices under incomplete information

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: David, Alexander

Keywords: endogenous corporate default boundary and capital structure; information disclosure; resolution of uncertainty; learning; speculation; investment complementarities; coordination; central bank; speed of recovery; treasury bond risk premiums; storage

$99,500

Macroeconomic and firm level fundamental uncertainties, speculation and asset pricing puzzles

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: David, Alexander

Keywords: asset pricing; learning; uncertainty; speculation; general equilibrium; volatility; risk premiums; time series analysis; forecasting; credit risk; options; energy prices

$72,500

Uncertainty, speculation, and asset pricing puzzles

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: David, Alexander

Keywords: risk premiums; credit spreads; learning; volatility

$63,131

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Energy Dear Professor David, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on energy connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "The Effects of Subjective Beliefs and Disagreement on Financial Markets" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]