Laura Veldkamp (born July 14, 1975) is an American economist teaching as a professor of finance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and also serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.

[2] She is on the New York University Stern Committees since 2007, with responsibilities including financial oversight, obtaining tenure, and teaching at Ph.D. programs.

[2] In 2011, she became a coordinator for the Economic Fluctuations, Growth, and Development research group in the New York University Stern Center for Global Economy and Business.

[2] She currently teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business where she holds the Leon G Cooperman Chair Professorship of Finance and serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.

[3] Veldkamp's research varies from macroeconomics, monetary economics, international finance, and asset pricing.

A key assumption of the model was that investors were unaware of the rise of asset complexity and were also creating ratings bias.

[7] Veldkamp's most awarded paper was "Information Immobility and the Home Bias Puzzle", written in collaboration with economist Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh.

[8] Veldkamp is the author of the textbook Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance, printed by the Princeton University Press.