Christopher J. Palmer

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has recently appointed four MIT Sloan faculty members as Faculty Research Fellows, including Christopher Palmer, who has been appointed a fellow in the Corporate Finance program. Christian Catalini, Namrata Kala, and Claudia Steinwender were also appointed as fellows. The NBER is the nation’s leading nonprofit economic research organization, whose affiliates have included 27 Nobel Prize winners and 13 past chairs of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. While the NBER remains impartial and does not make public policy recommendations, NBER research findings are disseminated among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals, bringing critical information to many important public policy debates.

Christopher Palmer was honored with the Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award in 2019. 
The award, given by the Society of Financial Studies, was for the paper, “The Capitalization of Consumer Financing into Durable Goods Prices.” Palmer's paper co-author's were
Bronson Argyle, Taylor Nadauld, and Ryan Pratt.

Christopher Palmer  and Ben Shields (Managerial Communication) were each awarded the 2022 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching, established to honor educational innovation and excellence. The Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award is the most prestigious teaching prize offered by the school. The award was established in 2006 and is awarded each year to two MIT Sloan faculty members, as well as two electrical engineering and computer science faculty members, for their contributions to educational excellence at MIT. The Jamieson faculty prize is selected by a review committee at MIT.