Faculty Leading Excellence in Finance
MIT Sloan’s finance faculty are world-renowned thinkers who combine original insights and breakthrough ideas with a practical approach to finance education.
Like colleagues before them, today’s finance faculty is engaged in groundbreaking research of critical significance and relevance to the world.
Our faculty bring that research into the classroom, where students are exposed to the very latest in finance theory and practice.
FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Paul Asquith
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance
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Hui Chen
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Nomura Professor of Finance
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Taha Choukhmane
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor
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John C. Cox
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Nomura Professor of Finance, Emeritus
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Maryam Farboodi
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Jon D. Gruber Career Development Professor
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Leonid Kogan
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Professor of Management
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Tong Liu
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance
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Andrew W. Lo
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
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Deborah J. Lucas
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance
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Robert C. Merton
Economics, Finance and Accounting
School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance
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Lira Mota
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor
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Stewart Myers
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics, Emeritus
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Christopher J. Palmer
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Associate Professor, Finance
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Jonathan A. Parker
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics
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Lawrence D.W. Schmidt
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance
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Antoinette Schoar
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Professor, Finance
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Kerry Y. Siani
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor
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David Thesmar
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics
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Adrien Verdelhan
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Stephens Naphtal Professor of Finance
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Emil Verner
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Associate Professor, Finance
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Jiang Wang
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Mizuho Financial Group Professor
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Haoxiang Zhu
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance
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Telis Dimitri Bertsekas
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Lecturer and Head of the Finance Certificate
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Nathaniel Gregory
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Senior Lecturer, Finance
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Ted Keith
Senior Lecturer, Finance
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Mark P. Kritzman
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Senior Lecturer, Finance
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Paul F. Mende
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Senior Lecturer, Finance
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Piero Augusto Novelli
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Senior Lecturer, Finance
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Gita R. Rao
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Senior Lecturer, Finance; Assoc. Faculty Director, MFin Program
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Matthew Rothman
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Senior Lecturer, Finance
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Carl Stjernfeldt
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Lecturer, Finance
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Janice Eberly
Golub Distinguished Senior Fellow
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Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Fischer Black Visiting Chair in Financial Economics
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Egor Matveyev
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Finance
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Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Visiting Associate Professor, Finance
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Hong Ru
Visiting Associate Professor of Finance
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Lawrence Weiss
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Visiting Professor of Finance
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Daron Acemoglu
Economics
Institute Professor
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Dimitris Bertsimas
Management Science
Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
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Ricardo Caballero
Economics
Ford International Professor of Economics
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Munther A. Dahleh
Electrical Engineering-Computer Science
William A. Coolidge Professor
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Amy Finkelstein
Economics
John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics
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Kristin J. Forbes
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management
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Bengt Holmstrom
Economics
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Emeritus
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S.P. Kothari
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance
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Parag Pathak
Economics
MIT Professor
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Robert S. Pindyck
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
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Tomaso A. Poggio
Brain & Cognitive Sciences|McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Eugene McDermott Professor
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James Michael Poterba
Economics
MIT Professor
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Roberto Rigobon
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
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Eric So
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Global Economics and Management
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Ivan Werning
Economics
MIT Professor
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