Antoinette Schoar

Antoinette Marion Sarah Schoar is a German - American economist . She researches and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Career, research and teaching

Schoar studied at the University of Cologne , where she successfully completed her degree in economics in 1995 . She then received an ERP scholarship until 1997 and graduated in June 2000 as a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago . Her thesis entitled "Effects of Corporate Diversification on Productivity" was supervised by Sherwin Rosen . She then moved to the MIT Sloan School of Management as an assistant professor , and in 2004 she became an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 2008 she was appointed full professor to the Michael Koerner '49 chair at the Sloan School.

Schoar has served on the editorial boards of renowned journals, including the Journal of Financial Intermediation (2005–2007), Journal of Economic Perspectives (2006–2008) and the Journal of Finance (2006–2004). Together with Sendhil Mullainathan , Simeon Djankow , Eldar Shafir , Jeffrey Kling and Michael Kremer , she founded the think tank Ideas42 in 2008 .

Schoar's work focuses on the areas between finance and entrepreneurship . She examined, among other things, capital flows from venture capitalists as well as the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises and family businesses as well as start-ups in emerging markets . Another focus is on the behavioral analysis of corporate management and leadership style in small and medium-sized companies and family businesses, but also - especially in connection with their think tank project - of socio-political problems.

Web links

• Official website at MIT
• Antoinette Schoar in the IDEAS database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu: "Antoinette Marion Sarah Schoar"