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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. 

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Siani wins Outstanding Teacher Award

Publications

"Raising Bond Capital in Segmented Markets."

Siani, Kerry Y., MIT Sloan Working Paper 6721-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2022.

"Bond Market Stimulus: Firm-Level Evidence."

Darmouni, Olivier and Kerry Y. Siani, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6790-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2022.

"Global Demand Spillovers: When the Central Bank Buys Corporate Bonds."

Siani, Kerry Y., MIT Sloan Working Paper 6789-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2021.

"Corporate Bond Issuance and Bank Lending in the United States."

Darmouni, Olivier and Kerry Y. Siani. European Economy: Banks, Regulation, and the Real Sector (2021).

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