Antoinette Schoar

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Antoinette Schoar

Antoinette Schoar

Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bio Info

Antoinette Schoar is a Scientific Advisor for IPA's Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development (EPSD) Program. She is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance at the 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 ideas42, a non-profit organization that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems.

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