Antoinette Schoar

Antoinette Schoar is Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cologne, Germany. She is the co-chair of the NBER Corporate Finance group. Antoinette's research interests span from entrepreneurship and financing of small businesses in emerging markets to household finance and intermediation in retail financial markets. She has published numerous papers in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economic, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and others. Antoinette is also the cofounder of ideas42 a non-profit organization that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems