Emily Williams

Emily Williams is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit, teaching the Finance II course to MBA students. Professor Williams’ research focuses on financial intermediation, traditional intermediation and payments, the use of technology in financial intermediation and the financial services offered to the underbanked. Professor Williams earned her MA in Mathematics from Warwick University, and after working in various industry roles received her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and later her PhD in finance at London Business School in 2017.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) London Business School (2012 — 2017)
• MBA The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (2010 — 2012)
• Masters of Mathematics University of Warwick (2002 — 2006)

Journal articles

• Lewellen, Stefan, and Emily Williams. "Did Technology Contribute to the Housing Boom? Evidence from MERS." (pdf) Journal of Financial Economics 141, no. 3 (September 2021): 1244–1261.

Working papers

• Balyuk, Tetyana, and Emily Williams. "Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers." (pdf) Working Paper, November 2021.
• Di Maggio, Marco, Angela Ma, and Emily Williams. "In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked." (pdf) NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28242, December 2020. (Revise and Resubmit to The Journal of Finance.)
• Williams, Emily. "Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." (pdf) Working Paper, April 2020.

Cases and teaching materials

• McComb, Emily, and Emily Williams. "Growing Skoah." Harvard Business School Case 220-062, February 2020. (Revised February 2021.)