Principal Investigators
Antoinette Schoar
Antoinette Schoar is the Michael M. Koerner Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an expert in corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational economics. Antoinette Schoar researches venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate diversification, and governance, and capital budgeting decisions in firms. In 2008, she received the Kauffman Foundation Prize Medal for distinguished research in entrepreneurship. Antoinette Schoar is also a Managing Director and founder of ideas42, a laboratory for applied behavioral economics hosted at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
Mudit Kapoor
Mudit Kapoor is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Indian School of Business. His primary research interests are in the areas of Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics and secondary research interests are in Industrial Organization, Development, Labor and International Finance.
Rajkamal Iyer
Raj Iyer is an Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include banking and contract theory. He is particularly focused on understanding the role of interbank markets in the provision of liquidity. Recent research projects include examining the factors that mitigate depositors' incentive to run on banks and how market participants overcome friction in contracting. He has received a MS in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics and a Phd in Finance from INSEAD.
Viswanath Pingali
Viswanath Pingali is an Assistant Professor of Economics at IFMR Business School, Chennai. His primary research interests include industrial organization, regulatory economics and applied econometrics. In particular, his research focuses on how firms compete and price their products in regulatory, as well as free market regimes. He is currently working on characterizing the effect of competition in the microfinance industry. His other research interests include intellectual property and welfare issues relating to the pharmaceutical sector. He received his MS in quantitative economics from Indian Statistical Institute, and PhD in economics from Northwestern University.