Research Initiatives macrofinance lab

The Macrofinance Lab (macrofinance.princeton.edu) is dedicated to the study of the connections between finance and the macroeconomy. The lab brings together faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students to collaborate on empirical macrofinance projects. It helps doctoral students develop their ideas from the conceptual stage to a publishable product by facilitating access to data sources and funding summer research, data acquisition, conference travel and undergraduate research assistants.

In 2020, the National Science Foundation awarded a three-year research grant to Ernest Liu, Atif Mian and Karsten Müller to support the Lab’s ongoing work. The project will develop an open-source textbook and data-sharing platform to build a community of researchers and advance our understanding of issues like credit supply and indebtedness, distributional outcomes and growth, all through the lens of empirical macrofinance.

Assistant professors Natalie Cox and Arlene Wong were awarded a one-year Princeton University research grant to support a study on the economic implications and costs of the Covid-19 pandemic. FACULTY t Natalie Marie Cox t Moritz Lenel t Ernest Liu t Adrien Matray t Atif Mian t Jonathan Payne t David Schoenherr t Arlene Wong

affiliated faculty, researchers and students

dissertation fellows 2020–2021

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS t Jonathon Hazell t Karsten Müller PH.D. STUDENTS t Patrick Agte t Narek Alexanian t Lukas Althoff t Meir Brooks t Francisco Cabezon t Juan Manuel Castro

Vincenzi t Anshu Chen t Abhishek Gaurav t Sebastian Guarda t Faizaan Kisat t Binyamin Kleinman t Thomas Krön t Kwok Hao Lee t Dake Li t Ziang Li t Jialiang Lin t Lukas Mann t Jessica Min t Daniel Morrison t Georgios Nikolakoudis t Don Noh t Shumiao Ouyang t Sebastian Roelsgaard t Raúl Rosales

Guadarrama t Rafael Schwalb t Jihong Song t Ruairidh South t Robert Wagner t Peng Wang t Kecy Wu t Sifan Xue t Fangyuan Yi t Chansik Yoon t So Hye Yoon t Haiyue Yu t Jason Zhang t Haonan Zhou

FAIZAAN KISAT, Algorithms and credit

THOMAS KRÖN, Low interest rates, productivity and the link to financial stability

KECY WU, Organizational capabilities and firm dynamics: a venture capital perspective