Courses

Ec980z Behavioral Finance  [Spring 2025]
Meeting Time: Tuesdays, 12:00 - 2:00pm
Location: TBA
Description: This junior seminar will provide an overview of theoretical and empirical research on asset pricing that adopts a “behavioral” perspective, i.e. that considers the joint consequences of: (i) investors who have either less than fully rational beliefs or non-standard preferences; and (ii) various impediments to arbitrage. We will also spend considerable time fleshing out the implications of investor sentiment for corporate finance, macroeconomics, and public policy.

Ec1759 The Financial System and the Central Bank  [Spring 2025]
Meeting Time: Mondays - Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:15pm
Location: TBA
Description: This course analyzes the modern financial system. Topics include: (i) the behavior of various types of intermediaries (e.g., banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds, hedge funds); (ii) key elements of the system's plumbing and infrastructure; (iii) sources of systemic risk; and (iv) the multiple roles of the central bank as monetary policymaker, lender of last resort, and regulator.

Ec 3011 Graduate Student Workshop in Financial Economics  [2024-2025 - Graduate Research Meeting]
Meeting Time: Friday 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: HBS Baker 102
Description:  Participants discuss recent research in financial economics and present their own work in progress.

Seminar in Financial Economics  [2024-2025 Seminar]
Meeting Time: Wednesday 3:30 - 4:50pm
Location: Baker 102, Harvard Business School
Description:  Participants discuss recent research in financial economics and present their own work in progress.