Faculty Affiliates

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT and also affiliated with the National Bureau Economic Research, and the Center for Economic Policy Research. He received Nobel's Sveriges Riksbank Prize in

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan...

Ricardo J. Caballero is the Ford International Professor of Economics and an NBER Research Associate. Caballero was the Chairman of MIT's Economics Department (2008-2011). His teaching and research fields are macroeconomics and finance. Caballero...

Kristin Forbes is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. She has regularly rotated between academia and senior policy positions. From 2014-2017 she was an External Member of…

Michelle Hanlon is the Howard W. Johnson Professor, a Professor of Accounting, and Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management Hanlon’s primary teaching at Sloan is the Taxes and Business Strategy class. She has won…

Bengt Holmstrom is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT, where he also was head of the Economics Department from 2003-2006.  He holds a joint appointment with MIT’s Sloan School of Management.    Holmstrom is a Fellow of the American…

Yasheng Huang （黄亚生） @YashengHuang http://www.yashenghuang.com/ Yasheng Huang is a Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School and also holds the Epoch Foundation (时代基金会）Professorship of Global Economics and Management …

SIMON JOHNSON is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. At MIT, he is also co-director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone…

James Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT and the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit research organization with nearly 1400 affiliated economists. He has served as President of the Eastern Economic…

Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Visiting Professor at IESA (Venezuela).Roberto is a…

Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Germany. Her research interests span from…

David A. Singer is the Department Head and Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science at MIT. Professor Singer's research and teaching focus on international political economy with an emphasis on international financial relations...

Tavneet Suri is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her expertise is in the role of technology in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tavneet is an editor at the Review of…

Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT.

Her work focuses on the political economy of the rich democracies, with a current emphasis on the study of American capitalism in comparative perspective. She is the author, among...

Robert M. Townsend is a theorist, macroeconomist, and development economist who analyzes the role and impact of economic organization and financial systems through applied general equilibrium models, contract theory and the use of micro data. The...

Joseph Weber is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management and a Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His…

Haoxiang Zhu is the Gordon Y Billard Associate Professor of Management and Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses primarily on asset pricing, with particular emphasis on market structure and market design. He has…