Maryam Farboodi

Maryam Farboodi is the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Her research interests are in the areas of financial frictions, corporate finance, macroeconomics, and mechanism design.

Previously, Farboodi was an Assistant Professor at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. Before that, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.

Farboodi holds a BSc in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology, an MSc in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, an Msc in economics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a joint PhD in financial economics from the Booth School of Business and the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.

Current Research Focus:

Maryam Farboodi, Jon D. Gruber Career Development Professor: Farboodi's research focuses on the effects of the rise of big data on financial institutions, real economy, and their interaction. She also studies intermediation within the financial sector, and the spillovers to the real economy. She is interested in how information frictions shape the local and global economics cycles, as well as network formation among financial institutions. Most recently, she is also working on understanding the covid-19 pandemic and associated policies.