Isaac Hacamo

Department: Finance

Campus: Bloomington

Areas of Expertise

Labor & Finance ◦ Housing/Urban Economics ◦ Entrepreneurship ◦ Household Finance ◦ Corporate Finance

Best Paper Prize sponsored by NMHC, awarded by American Real Estate Society, 2023
Departmental Research Award, awarded by Kelley School Business, 2023
Brattle Group Prize (Distinguished Paper), awarded by Journal of Finance, 2022
Hillcrest Best Paper Award in Behavioral Finance, awarded by Review of Financial Studies, 2022
Winner, Trustee Teaching Award, Fall 2021, UG, Kelley-Indiana
Finalist, Innovative Teaching Award, Spring 2018, UG, Kelley-Indiana
Finalist, Trustee Teaching Award, Spring 2017, UG, Kelley-Indiana
Finalist, Trustee Teaching Award, Fall 2015, UG, Kelley-Indiana
Finalist, Trustee Teaching Award, Fall 2014, UG, Kelley-Indiana
Winner, Teaching Award, Earl F. Cheit GSI Award, Fall 2013, MBA, UC Berkeley
Winner, Teaching Award, Earl F. Cheit GSI Award, Spring 2013, MFE, UC Berkeley
Winner, Teaching Award, Earl F. Cheit GSI Award, Fall 2012, MBA, UC Berkeley
Winner, Teaching Award, UC Berkeley Campus-wide GSI, Fall 2011, Undergraduate, UC Berkeley

Hacamo, I. (2025). Interest Rates and the Distribution of House Prices. The Review of Economic Studies, accepted.
Hacamo, I., and Kleiner, K. (2024). No Experience Necessary: The Peer Effects of Intended Entrepreneurship. Review of Finance, 28(4), 1311–1344.
Hacamo, I., and Kleiner, K. (2022). Competing for Talent: Firms, Managers, and Social Networks. Review of Financial Studies, 35(1), 207–253.
Hacamo, I., and Kleiner, K. (2022). Forced Entrepreneurs. Journal of Finance, 77(1), 49-83.
Hacamo, I. (2021). The Babies of Mortgage Market Deregulation. The Review of Financial Studies, 34(2), 907–948.
Agrawal, A., Hacamo, I., and Hu, Z. (2021). Information Dispersion across Employees and Stock Returns, The Review of Financial Studies, 34(10), 4785-4831.

Edited on September 3, 2025