Antoinette Schoar is the Michael M. Koerner (49') Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD is in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cologne, Germany. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Finance and the American Economic Journal in Applied Economics. She also is the co-chair of the NBER Entrepreneurship group and a cofounder of ideas42 a research lab on behavioral social science. Her research interests span from entrepreneurship and financing of small businesses in emerging markets to household finance and intermediation in retail financial markets. Her paper "The Effects of Corporate Diversification on Productivity" won the 2003 Journal of Finance Brattle Prize. She also received the prestigious Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship in 2009. She has published numerous papers in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economic, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and others. Her work has been featured in the Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2012.
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