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News, events, and research insights from the Finance Group and faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2017
RT @dthesmar: publication day of our new book with @augustinlandier !. We make an ultra-simple point: it is not possible to think about eco….
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Congratulations to Sloan Finance Faculty Lira Mota and Kerry Siani, winners of the 2025 North America Best Paper in Corporate Finance from the Society for Financial Studies for their paper “Financially Sophisticated Firms: A Demand-Based Approach to Corporate Financing.”.
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Congratulations to our MBA and Sloan Fellows MBAs graduating today!
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Sloan Commencement starts today! Congratulations to all our graduates!
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A great event yesterday with the Consumer Finance Initiative and Golub Center for Finance and Policy – thank you to our speakers and attendees!
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Join us Tuesday May 13th for discussion on Consumer Financial Protection in the US. Join us in person or register for the livestream:
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🥳Congratulations to Senior Lecturer Mark Kritzman on receiving the 2025 James R. Vertin Award!🥳 This award recognizes individuals who have produced a body of research notable for its relevance & enduring value to investment professionals.
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Please join us on March 14 at 1 PM for @MITSloanPhD's annual Doctoral Research Forum and celebratory reception. Come hear about some of the fascinating research being conducted by our doctoral candidates, and celebrate these soon-to-be PhDs! Attendance is open to all.
You're invited to our annual Doctoral Research Forum March 14! Hear research from PhD candidates @malsobay (IT), #LucaGius (TIES), @Cameron_Martel_ (Marketing), and @EppaRixey5 (Economic Sociology). Register to attend virtually:
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Larry's winning paper, "Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors," was co-authored with K. Akepanidtaworn (International Monetary Fund), R. Di Mascio (Inalytics), and A. Imas (Chicago Booth). Read it here:
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Are market experts prone to heuristics, and do these heuristics transfer across buying and selling domains? We investigate this question using a unique data set of institutional investors with...
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This annual prize is given by the American Finance Association (publishers of The Journal of Finance) and sponsored by Dimensional Fund Advisors (prizes prior to 2019 were sponsored by Amundi Pioneer, Amundi Smith Breeden, and Smith Breeden and named accordingly).
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MIT Sloan Assistant Professor of Finance Lawrence (Larry) D. W. Schmidt has won the 2024 Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize (First Prize), for the top paper published in The Journal of Finance in any area other than corporate finance. Congratulations, Larry!
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Dimensional Fund Advisors Prizes The Dimensional Fund Advisors Prizes are awarded annually for the top three papers in The Journal of Finance in any area other than corporate finance. The winning...
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@ProfJAParker & Professor Schoar were joined by Brandeis University's Professor Sun to conduct research on the market impact of Target Date Funds (TDFs), one of the most significant financial innovations widely used by individual retirement savers in America. Congratulations all!.
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MIT Professors @ProfJAParker & Antoinette Schoar, along with coauthor Professor Yang Sun, have won the Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security from @TIAA for their study linked here on Target Date Funds! 🧵
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Congratulations to our very own @EmilVerner on being awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship! Recipients of this award represent the most promising early-career scientists. Their achievements & potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the US and Canada!.
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers.
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How do consumer credit markets effect our daily lives? Christopher Palmer (Sloan Consumer Finance Initiative) discusses how consumer credit markets impact household finance, investment and policy in the latest issue of NBER’s The Reporter
mitsloan.mit.edu
About the Consumer Finance Initiative
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Our socials may have been quiet during winter break, but our faculty has been hard at work!."What happens in credit markets doesn’t stay in credit markets," says Chris Palmer, Associate Professor of Finance. Read a summary of his work on @nberpubs here!
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Is too much trading squeezed into markets' closing minutes? Professor @AndrewWLo discusses the effect an increased concentration of trading might have on market quality. @ChicagoBooth
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A panel of experts considers the end-of-day deluge in many financial markets.
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MIT Professor of Finance @dthesmar and co-authors investigate "the moral preferences of investors through incentivized experiments" Read more from their paper here!
corpgov.law.harvard.edu
Over recent years, responsible asset management has developed considerably in size. However, the exact nature of responsible investors’ preferences remains somewhat elusive. Our paper investigates...
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This week on the Mercatus Center's Macro Musings podcast, @EmilVerner discussed his paper "Failing Banks," causes/policy implications of bank failures, shortcomings of the Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs, & how financial crises spur the rise of populism
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Emil Verner is an associate professor of finance at MIT Sloan and is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Ec
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