Ryan Bubb

Ryan Bubb is the Robert B. McKay Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. He was formerly a senior researcher at the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and a policy analyst at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. Since joining the NYU faculty in 2010, he has held visiting professor, visiting scholar, or visiting fellow positions at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, the University of Chicago School of Law, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Professor Bubb teaches courses in corporate and securities law and in law and economics. In 2014 the Law School awarded him the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award.

Professor Bubb’s research focuses on corporate law, law and economics, and regulatory policy. He has published over a dozen articles in law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals, including legal and economic analyses of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 (e.g., "Securitization and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Credit Score Cutoff Rules," 63 J. Monetary Econ. 1 (2014), with Alex Kaufman; "Regulating Against Bubbles," 163 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1539 (2015), with Prasad Krishnamurthy; "Regulating Motivation: A New Perspective on the Volcker Rule," 96 Tex. L. Rev. 1019 (2018), with Marcel Kahan), analyses of the implications of behavioral economics for policy design (e.g., "Consumer Biases and Mutual Ownership," 105 J. Public Econ. 39 (2013), with Alex Kaufman; "How Behavioral Economics Trims Its Sails and Why," 127 Harv. L. Rev. 1593 (2014), with Richard H. Pildes; "An Equilibrium Theory of Retirement Plan Design," 12 Am. Econ. J.: Econ. Pol'y 22 (2020), with Patrick L. Warren); and an empirical analysis of how mutual funds vote their shares in portfolio companies ("The Party Structure of Mutual Funds," 35 Rev. Fin. Stud. 2839 (2022), with Emiliano M. Catan).

Bubb received his B.S. in physics from the College of William and Mary in 1998. After graduating with a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.A. in economics from Yale University in 2005, he began doctoral work in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2011.