New research puts a price on the value of financial data
Financial data is an asset. New research from MIT Sloan provides a framework to help companies and investors place a monetary value on that data.
Faculty
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 focuses on the economics of big data. She studies how big data technologies have changed trading strategies and financial outcomes, as well the consequences of the emergence of big data for technological growth in the real economy. She also works on developing methodologies to estimate the value of data.
Furthermore, Farboodi studies intermediation and network formation among financial institutions, and the spillovers to the real economy. She is also interested in how information frictions shape the local and global economic cycles. Most recently, her research also focuses on understanding the covid-19 pandemic and associated policies.
Previously, Farboodi was an Assistant Professor at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. She holds a BSc in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology, an MSc in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a joint PhD in financial economics from the Booth School of Business and the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.
Farboodi, Maryam and Laura Veldkamp, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5968-19. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2021.
Farboodi, Maryam, Roxana Mihet, Thomas Philippon, and Laura Veldkamp. AER Papers and Proceedings Vol. 109, (2019): 38-42.
Begenau, Juliane, Maryam Farboodi, Laura Veldkamp. Journal of Monetary Economics Vol. 97, (2018): 71-87.
Farboodi, Maryam and Péter Kondor, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6533-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, November 2021.
Farboodi, Maryam. Journal of Monetary Economics Vol. 89, (2017): 68-70.
Farboodi, Maryam, and Péter Kondor. American Economic Review. Forthcoming. NBER Preprint.
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