He was previously on the faculty of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. His research highlights limits of using the market for information to improve the firm, set accounting standards, design bank regulation, conduct monetary policy, and allocate resources in financial markets. His work has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research and the Journal of Monetary Economics. Bleck presented his work at various policy institutions including the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Richmond, the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of Canada, and the International Monetary Fund. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from the London School of Economics.