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Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management.

She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Germany. Her research interests span from entrepreneurial finance to fintech, consumer finance, and financial intermediation. She has received several awards including the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and the Brattle Prize for best paper in The Journal of Finance

She is the co-chair of the NBER Corporate Finance group. She has served as an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

She also is the cofounder of ideas42, a non-profit organization that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems.

Current Research Focus: Schoar's current research focuses on the areas of consumer finance, entrepreneurial finance, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology as well as new financial technologies. Some of her ongoing projects investigate competition in credit card markets, applications of behavioral economics to consumer finance and cryptocurrency trading, governance of proof of stake and proof of work blockchains, and decentralized finance (DeFi). She is also the executive editor of the Journal of Finance, the cochair of the NBER Corporate Finance group, and a cofounder of ideas42, a non-profit that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems.

Honors

NBER Corporate Finance program appoints Schoar as co-director

Antoinette Schoar has received the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship

Publications

"Demand-side and Supply-side Constraints in the Market for Financial Advice."

Reuter, Jonathan and Antoinette Schoar. Annual Review of Financial Economics. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper No.32452.

"Financial Advice and Investor Beliefs: Experimental Evidence on Active vs. Passive Strategies."

Schoar, Antoinette and Yang Sun, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7155-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2024.

"Are Cryptos Different? Evidence from Retail Trading."

Kogan, Shimon, Igor Makarov, Marina Niessner, and Antoinette Schoar. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 159, (2024): 103897. SSRN.

"Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice."

Cole, Shawn, Mukta Joshi, and Antoinette Schoar. The World Bank Economic Review Vol. 38, No. 3 (2024): 580-597. SSRN.

"The Effect of Managers on Systematic Risk."

​Schoar, Antoinette, Kelvin Yeung, and Luo Zuo. Management Science Vol. 70, No. 2 (2024): 815-833. Accepted Manuscript.

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