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Directors

Jonathan Parker

Jonathan Parker

Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics

Parker has contributed broadly to research on household finance, FinTech, financial markets, macroeconomics, and public policy.

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Antoinette Schoar

Antoinette Schoar

Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance

Schoar's current research focuses on the areas of consumer finance, entrepreneurial finance, and new financial technologies.

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Researchers

Taha Choukhmane

Taha Choukhmane

Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor

Choukhmane studies households' saving and investment decisions, focusing on retirement saving. His current research examines the determinants of household portfolio choice, racial disparities in retirement saving, and the long-term effect of nudges.

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Maryam Farboodi

Maryam Farboodi

Jon D. Gruber Career Development Professor

Farboodi's research focuses on the economics of big data; how big data technologies have changed trading strategies and financial outcomes.

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Leonid Kogan

Leonid Kogan

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Professor of Management

Kogan works on topics in asset pricing and macro-finance. His recent projects focus on the creative destruction aspects of technological progress.

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Christopher Palmer

Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor

Palmer's research focuses on how households and credit markets respond to periods of significant upheaval.

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Lawrence Schmidt

Larry Schmidt

Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant Profes

Schmidt’s research seeks to offer a richer picture of risks faced by financial market participants, especially risks affecting labor/entrepreneurial income, and to shed new light on economic mechanisms linking financial markets and the real economy.

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Nemit Shroff

School of Management Distinguished Professor

Shroff’s primary research interest concerns whether and why accounting disclosures such as audited financial statements, management forecasts, and press releases affect the corporate financing and investing policies of public and private companies.

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Tavneet Suri

Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics

Tavneet Suri is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her expertise is in the role of technology in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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David Thesmar

David Thesmar

Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics

David does research on behavioral economics, with a focus on expectation formation and moral preferences. He uses a mix of field data, experiments, and surveys.

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Catherine Tucker

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management

Tucker's research interests lie in how technology allows firms to use digital data and machine learning to improve performance, and in the challenges this poses for regulation.

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Emil Verner

Emil Verner

Class of 1957 Career Development Professor

Verner's current research is on the connection between finance and the macroeconomy, with a particular focus on the role of credit markets and financial institutions in shaping business cycles and the risk of financial crises.

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Affiliated Researchers

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Igor Makarov

Associate Professor of Finance, LSE

Makarov earned his PhD at MIT Sloan and is a Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics. His research interests include Asset Pricing, Cryptocurrencies, DeFi and Financial Markets.

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Maarten Meeuwis

Assistant Professor of Finance, Olin Business School

Meeuwis is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include Asset Pricing, Household Finance, and Macroeconomics.

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Robert C. Merton

MIT School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance

Merton’s current research focuses on three areas: 1) Lifecycle investing and retirement funding solutions, 2) Measuring and monitoring macrofinancial (systemic) risk, and 3) Financial innovation and the dynamics of financial institutional change.

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Hong Ru

Hong Ru, MFin '10, PhD '15, Visiting Associate Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan; Associate Professor of Banking & Finance at Nanyang Business School in Singapore

Hong Ru is an Associate professor of Banking at Finance at Nanyang Business School, NTU. His research interests include financial intermediary, Chinese economy, corporate finance, and household finance.

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Yang Sun

Assistant Professor of Finance in the Brandeis International Business School

Sun's research interests include household finance, financial innovations, and corporate finance.

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Our Student Researchers

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Jiageng Liu

PhD Candidate, Finance

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Fiona Paine

PhD Candidate, Finance

Xinrong Yao

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

Jiulei Zhu

Pre-Doctoral Researcher