The top 10 MIT Sloan news stories of 2021
From a machine learning explainer to trends in data and artificial intelligence, here are the stories that readers needed most this year.
Faculty
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, and new financial technologies. Some of her ongoing projects investigate how competition in credit card markets impacts consumers, the role of mortgage markets in the economy, applications of behavioral economics to consumer finance and cryptocurrency trading. She is also 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.
Meeuwis, Maarten, Jonathan A. Parker, Antoinette Schoar, and Duncan I. Simester. Journal of Finance. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
Parker, Jonathan A., Antoinette Schoar, Allison Cole, and Duncan Simester, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6226-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, March 2022. Appendix.
Cole, Shawn Allen, Mukta Joshi, and Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6608-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2022.
Makarov, Igor and Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6479-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2021.
David Atkins, Antoinette Schoar, and Kiara Wahnschafft. Download Paper.
Parker, Jonathan A., Antoinette Schoar, and Yang Sun, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6206-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2021. NBER Working Paper 28028.
From a machine learning explainer to trends in data and artificial intelligence, here are the stories that readers needed most this year.
Analysis of the blockchain ecosystem sheds new light on Bitcoin behaviors, using the most complete Bitcoin data set to date.
"DeFi applications might have the potential to democratize finance by creating a level playing field among providers of financial products ... "
PayPal said its Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies advisory council would help to support its current and future products.
"Despite having been around for 14 years and the hype it has ratcheted up, it's still the case that it's a very concentrated ecosystem."
Christian Catalini and Antoinette Schoar ... who have done extensive studies of the sector say the "digital gold" argument is overblown.
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