Adrien Matray is an applied macroeconomist whose research explores how finance influences economic growth and determines who benefits from it. He focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation, and productivity across firms, cities, and countries, as well as how capital allocation affects public and industrial policies in developed and developing economies. His work has been published in top journals like Econometrica and the Journal of Finance. A former professor at Princeton and visiting professor at Stanford, he now teaches at Harvard, where he has developed a course on personal finance.