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Faculty News October 25

Markus Brunnermeier awarded the 2021 German Business Book Prize for "The Resilient Society"

Alumni News October 06

Forging a Career Path of Her Own: Meet BCF Alumnus and Startup Founder Sarah Nagy

PublicOctober 28, 2021    9:00 am

Edward Glaeser on "Survival of the City"

Alumni News August 23

Princeton BCF Alumnus Veronica Fegatilli (Mfin ’20) Reflects on One Year Since Receiving Her MFin

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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

  • BCF Students
    October 28, 2021

    Dennis Walsh

    Global Co-Head of Quantitative Equity, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  • Public
    October 28, 2021
    9:00 am

    Edward Glaeser on "Survival of the City"

    With introductions by Markus Brunnermeier
  • BCF Students
    November 1, 2021

    The Social Value of Investment

    JC De Swaan, Partner, Cornwall Capital and Lecturer, Princeton University Economics Department
  • BCF Students
    November 8, 2021

    Matthew S. Rothman

    Head of Quantitative Advisory Services, Millennium Management
  • Princeton Community
    November 10, 2021
    2:50 pm

    David Schreindorfer

    Assistant Professor, ASU: W.P. Carey Business
  • Princeton Community
    November 16, 2021
    12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

    Anshu Chen

  • Princeton Community
    November 16, 2021
    4:30 pm

    DeFi and How Blockchain will Transform Financial Services

    Asiff Hirji ,President of Figure and Former President and COO of Coinbase
  • Princeton Community
    November 17, 2021
    2:50 pm

    Daniel Greenwald

    Assistant Professor of Finance, MIT: Sloan
  • Public
    November 18, 2021
    12:30 pm

    Karin Kimbrough

    With introductions by Markus Brunnermeier
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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

Falling Rates and Rising Superstars

Thomas KroenErnest LiuAtif MianAmir Sufi
Monetary Economics

Interactions between Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Alan S. Blinder
Monetary Economics

What explains the decline in r*? Rising income inequality versus demographic shifts

Atif MianLudwig StraubAmir Sufi
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Published Papers

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

November 2017

Finance

A Hybrid Spline-Based Parametric Model for the Yield Curve

Adriano FariaCaio Almeida

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

November 2017

Annals of Statistics

June 2021

Finance

A shrinkage principle for heavy-tailed data: High-dimensional robust low-rank matrix recovery

Jianqing Fan Weichen WangZiwei Zhu

Annals of Statistics

June 2021

The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review

September 2021

Finance

The Evolution from Life Insurance to Financial Engineering

Ralph S. J. KoijenMotohiro Yogo

The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review

September 2021

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