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 entrepreneurial finance to fintech, consumer finance and financial intermediation. She has received several awards including the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and the Brattle Prize for best paper in the Journal of Finance. She is the co-chair of the NBER Corporate Finance group. She has served as an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
She also is the cofounder of the non-profit organization ideas42 that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems.
Antoinette Schoar is the co-director of the MIT Sloan Consumer Finance Initiative. The CFI supports research that aims to build an understanding of the benefits and risks as technologies change consumer financial markets.
