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Christopher Palmer is the Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches corporate finance. His research focuses on how credit, real estate, and labor markets respond to periods of significant upheaval.

Palmer is also a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Affiliate with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He previously taught real estate finance at the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and was a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Prior to graduate school, he consulted with Compass-Lexecon.

Palmer holds a BA in economics and mathematics from Brigham Young University and a PhD in economics from MIT.

Current Research Focus: Palmer's research focuses on how credit and real-estate markets respond to periods of significant upheaval. His current research projects evaluate policies designed to increase consumer attention to financial disclosures, improve retirement savings, reform the personal bankruptcy system, and improve federal housing vouchers.

Honors

Palmer wins Jamieson prize

NBER appoints Palmer as a Faculty Research Fellow

Palmer wins SFS Best Paper Award

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"Real Effects of Search Frictions in Consumer Credit Markets."

Argyle, Bronson, Christopher John Palmer, and Taylor Nadauld. The Review of Financial Studies Vol. 36, No. 7 (2023): 2685-2720. Link to Journal. The Conversation. Econimate Video. WSJ. Slides. Data and Code. NYU PhD Video. MarketWatch.

"The Last Mile of Monetary Policy: Inattention, Reminders, and the Refinancing Channel."

Byrne, Shane, Kenneth Devine, Michael King,Yvonne McCarthy, and Christopher John Palmer (NBER Working Paper #31043), Working Paper. March 2023.

"Are Stated Expectations Actual Beliefs? New Evidence for the Beliefs Channel of Investment Demand."

Liu, Haoyang, and Christopher John Palmer (NBER Working Paper #28926), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6395-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2021.

"Testing the Effectiveness of Consumer Financial Disclosure: Experimental Evidence from Savings Accounts."

Palmer, Christopher John, Paul Adams, Redis Zaliauskas, and Stefan Hunt. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 141, No. 1 (2021): 122-147. WSJ. J-PAL Summary. The Economist. MarketWatch. Code. Slides.

"Personal Bankruptcy and the Accumulation of Shadow Debt."

Argyle, Bronson, Benjamin Iverson, Taylor Nadauld, and Christopher John Palmer (NBER Working Paper #28901), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6150-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2021.

"Errors in the Dependent Variable of Quantile Regression Models."

Palmer, Christopher John, Jerry Hausman, Haoyang Liu, and Ye Luo. Econometrica Vol. 89, No. 2 (2021): 849–873. Data and Code.

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