Faculty
Kerry Siani is the Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Siani does research on capital markets and their interaction with policy and the real economy. Her recent work uses empirical methods to study how unconventional monetary policy affects corporate bond markets, and how the growing importance of institutional investors in financing firms affects financial fragility and the transmission of monetary policy.
Siani holds a BA from Harvard University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPA-ID from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in finance from Columbia University.
Darmouni, Olivier, Kerry Y. Siani, and Kairong Xiao. Journal of Finance. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
Siani, Kerry Y. The Review of Financial Studies. Forthcoming.
Selgrad, Julia and Kerry Y. Siani, Working Paper. October 2025.
Mota, Lira and Kerry Y. Siani, Working Paper. October 2025.
Siani, Kerry Y. and Jinyuan Zhang, Working Paper. October 2025.
Having access to a wider variety of institutional investors allows companies to better maintain access to capital, research shows.
The new faculty joining MIT Sloan in 2022 are experts in finance, system dynamics, technological innovation, and more.
