David Thesmar (MIT Sloan)

David THESMAR is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of the Cercle des économistes.

He is an expert in corporate finance, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship, and behavioural economics. Recently, he has studied the impact of financing constraints on the real economy. He also investigates risk management and systemic risk in banking as well as researching firm organisation and non-rational decision making on corporate strategies. His work makes systematic use of large datasets but emphasizes a parsimonious modelling approach to address economic questions.

He regularly publishes in the best specialised reviews and has been honoured with a number of best paper awards - Michael Brennan Best Paper in Corporate Finance (Review of Financial Studies), Smith Breeden Prize (Journal of Finance), Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize (Journal of Finance).

In 2007, David Thesmar was awarded the Best Young French Economist Award by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes.

To learn more about David THESMAR, consult his website

Professor Thesmar will be visiting with us for the full academic year from September 2023 to August 2024.