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A Conversation with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

On Thursday, January 14, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell joined Markus Brunnermeier for an online conversation.

Alumni News January 15

Princeton BCF Alumnus and T. Rowe Price CFO Céline Dufétel Named to Fortune’s Top 40 Under 40

PublicFebruary 11, 2021 / 12:30 pm

Esther Duflo on encouraging social distancing: evidence from several randomized controlled trials

Finance

The Saving Glut of the Rich

Atif MianLudwig StraubAmir Sufi
Awards and Honors December 09

Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier elected Vice President of the American Finance Association

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Princeton Initiative

An annual summer program that brings together second-year Ph.D students from around the country.

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Financial Economics of Insurance

An annual workshop that supports graduate student training and research at the intersection of finance and insurance.

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BCF China Initiative

An ongoing initiative that promotes understanding of the Chinese economy and its financial system.

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Other BCF Initiatives

  • Fintech@Princeton
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  • The Trinity of Stability
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Upcoming events

  • Public
    January 28, 2021 / 12:30 pm

    William Nordhaus on climate compacts to combat free riding in international climate agreements

    With introductions by Markus Brunnermeier
  • Princeton Community
    February 1, 2021 / 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm

    Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

    Northwestern University
  • Public
    February 4, 2021 / 12:30 pm

    Andrew Lo on new funding models for biomedical innovation

    With introductions by Markus Brunnermeier
  • Princeton Community
    February 10, 2021 / 2:50 pm

    Kelly Shue

    Professor of Finance Yale: School of Management
  • Public
    February 11, 2021 / 12:30 pm

    Esther Duflo on encouraging social distancing: evidence from several randomized controlled trials

    With introductions by Markus Brunnermeier
  • Princeton Community
    February 17, 2021 / 2:50 pm

    Maarten Meeuwis

    Assistant Professor of Finance WashU: Olin Business
  • Princeton Community
    February 24, 2021 / 12:20 pm

    Daniel Morrison

  • Princeton Community
    February 24, 2021 / 2:50 pm

    Rebecca DeSimone

    Assistant Professor of Finance London School of Business
  • Princeton Community
    March 3, 2021 / 12:20 pm

    Nick Huang

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Latest Research

See new research from Princeton BCF faculty in the Department of Economics, the Department of Operations and Financial Engineering, and the Department of Computer Science.

Working Papers

Finance

The Saving Glut of the Rich

Atif MianLudwig StraubAmir Sufi

Low-Frequency Analysis of Economic Time Series

Ulrich K. MüllerMark W. Watson
Finance

Rent-Extraction from the Unemployment Insurance System: The Role of Firms

Bernardus Van DoornikDavid SchoenherrJanis Skrastins
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Published Papers

AEJ: Microeconomics

Crisis Management: Analyzing Default Risk and Liquidity Demand during Financial Stress

Jason AllenAli HortacsuJakub Kastl

AEJ: Microeconomics

American Economic Review

September 2020

Finance

Self-Fulfilling Debt Dilution: Maturity and Multiplicity in Debt Models

Mark A. AguiarManuel Amador

American Economic Review

September 2020

Annals of Probability

September 2020

Finance

Inverting the Markovian projection, with an application to local stochastic volatility models

Daniel LackerMykhaylo ShkolnikovJiacheng Zhang

Annals of Probability

September 2020

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