Antoinette Schoar
at Imperial College London
Professor of Finance at Sloan School of Management
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- Sloan School of Management
- Imperial College London
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Antoinette Schoar teaches in the areas of corporate finance and entrepreneurship. While at the MIT Sloan School of Management, she developed a new second-year elective course on entrepreneurial finance. Her current research examines returns and capital flows in the venture capital industry, the effect of managerial styles on corporate policies, and the impact of corporate governance changes on a firm’s performance. Her paper, “The Effects of Corporate Diversification on Productivity,” won the 2003 Journal of Finance Brattle Prize. She has published several papers in The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Her work also has been featured in The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Economist. Schoar is a member of the American Finance Association and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to starting her graduate studies, she worked at Daimler Benz and McKinsey & Company. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cologne, Germany. While a student, she received several prestigious scholarships from the German National Scholarship foundation, the ministry of commerce, and the George Stigler Center at the University of Chicago.
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Sloan School of Management
Antoinette Schoar is the Michael M. Koerner (1949) Professor of Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
An expert in corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational economics, Schoar researches venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate diversification, governance, and capital budgeting decisions in firms. She has received the Fellowship of the George Stigler Center, 1997–1999, and the ERP Doctoral Scholarship of the German Ministry of Trade, 1995–1997.
Schoar holds a diploma in economics from the University of Cologne, Germany, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Current Research Focus: Schoar's current research focuses on the areas of household finance, entrepreneurial finance, and finance in emerging markets. Some of her ongoing projects investigate whether the market for financial advice corrects or aggravates investor biases, how competition in credit card markets impacts financing contracts, the role of housing and other forms of collateral for firm and job creation, and applications of behavioral economics to small-business lending. She is also a co-founder of ideas42, a non-profit that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems.
Videos
The impact of Big Data and AI in Consumer Finance (2018)
Finance at MIT Sloan: Principles and Practices for an Evolving Global Economy
Women in Economics: Antoinette Schoar - 3. What caused the U.S. housing crisis?
Women in Economics: Antoinette Schoar - 1. Managing With Style
Women in Economics: Antoinette Schoar - 2. Fintech and consumer finance
Antoinette Schoar: Financial advisors need fiduciary standards
Antoinette Schoar: What your credit card offers say about you
Fintech for a Changing World
Antoinette Schoar on retirement-finance adviser regulation
Antoinette Schoar on Bitcoin Adoption: What Regulators Need to Consider
FinTech for a Changing World
Financial System 2.0 London 2013: Loyalty and Credit Risk
MIT Sloan Global Women's Conference 2017: Fireside Chat
Financial Markets in Transition NYC 2012: Shaped by Booms and Busts, Economic Conditions
MIT Sloan Finance Beyond Crisis - The Role of Housing & Mortgage Markets in the Financial Crisis
Antoinette Schoar Lecture " Can finance research help to solve social problems?"
Frontiers of Finance NYC 2015: Panel Discussion on Financing Innovation
ECGI Annual Lecture - “Is Big Data a Challenge for Boards?”
Checking Your Financial Health-Antoinette Schoar
Antoinette Schoar (MIT): Payment systems and crypto currency markets [MFS Summer School 2021]
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