The Macro Financial Modeling initiative offers financial support for doctoral students in economics or other fields pursuing innovative work on macroeconomic models with financial sector linkages or related topics in this area.
Dissertation fellowships are provided with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CME Group Foundation, and Fidelity Management & Research Company.
This research initiative works to construct better, more comprehensive models for assessing systemic risk stemming from activities in the financial sector that can impact the economy as a whole. To encourage new research in this area, we are funding relevant dissertation proposals that examine:
- Macroeconometric models and methods with financial sector constraints
- Software and tools that evaluate new macroeconomic models
- Approaches to defining, measuring, and monitoring systemic risk
- Macroprudential regulation
- Fiscal challenges from the public sector
- The role of accounting in financial stability
Awards
Successful proposals will be awarded up to $16,000 to support research activity. The project will fund up to six graduate students.
Current and Past MFM Fellowship Awardees
Roberto Robatto, University of Wisconsin, September 2012- August 2014
Amy Zhou, Goldman Sachs, September 2012- August 2013
Juliane Begenau, Harvard University, January 2013-December 2013; January 2014-September 2014
Luigi Bocola, Northwestern University, January 2013-December 2013; January 2014-September 2014
Ji Huang, National University, January 2013-December 2013
Andrea Prestipino, Federal Reserve Board, January 2013-December 2013
Emil Siriwardane, Harvard Business School, January 2013-December 2013; January 2014-December 2014; January 2015- June 2015
Daan Struyven, Goldman Sachs, January 2013-December 2013
Adrien Auclert, Stanford University, September 2013- August 2014
Rui Cui, DaleyTang, September 2013-August 2014
Maryam Farboodi, Princeton University, September 2013- August 2014
Yu Xu, University of Hong Kong, September 2013-August 2014
Dejanir Silva, MIT, January 2014-December 2014
Winston Dou, MIT Sloan, January 2014-December 2014
Matteo Crosgnani, Federal Reserve Board, January 2014-December 2014
Fabrice Tourre, Northwestern University and Copenhagen Business School, January 2015-December 2015
Majid Bazarbash, Carnegie Mellon Tepper School, January 2015-December 2015
Divya Kirti, IMF, January 2015-December 2015
Marco Macchiavelli, Federal Reserve Board, January 2015-December 2015
Paolo Cavallino, IMF, January 2015-December 2015
Alexander Rodnyansky, Princeton University, January 2015-December 2015
Zachary Stangebye, University of Notre Dame, January 2015-December 2015
Philip Barrett, IMF, January 2015-December 2015
Moritz Lenel, Stanford University, January 2015-December 2015
Juan Francisco Passadore, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, January 2015-December 2015
Diego Feijer, MIT, January 2015-December 2015 and August 2015-July 2016
Cynthia Balloch, Columbia University, August 2015-July 2016
Nicolas Caramp, MIT, August 2015-July 2016
Daniel Greenwald, NYU, August 2015-July 2016
Yunzhi Hu, UNC, August 2015-July 2016
Simone Lenzu, University of Chicago, August 2015-July 2016
Ye Li, Columbia Business School, August 2015-July 2016
Carl Liebersohn, MIT, August 2015-July 2016
Jan Moller, NYU, August 2015-July 2016
Aaron Pancost, University of Texas, August 2015-July 2016
Elisabeth Prohl, Geneva School of Economics, August 2015-July 2016
Ludwig Straub, MIT, August 2015-July 2016
Alonso Villacorta, Stanford University, August 2015-July 2016
Ram Yamarthy, University of Pennsylvania, August 2015-July 2016
Matteo Benetton, London School of Economics, April 2016-March 2017
Laura Blattner, Harvard University, April 2016-March 2017
Tetiana Davydiuk, University of Pennsylvania, April 2016-March 2017
Paymon Khorrami, University of Chicago, April 2016-March 2017
Victor Duarte, MIT, April 2016-March 2017
Pablo Azar, MIT, April 2016-March 2017
BongGeun Choi, City University of Hong Kong, April 2016-March 2017
Willem van Vliet, University of Chicago, April 2016-March 2017
Carlos Avenancio-Leon, UC Berkeley, March 2017-February 2018
Sarita Bunsupha, Harvard University, March 2017-February 2018
Cristian Fuenzalida, NYU, March 2017-February 2018
Daniel Green, MIT, March 2017-February 2018
Paul Ho, Princeton University, March 2017-February 2018
Alexandra Indarte, Northwestern University, March 2017-February 2018
Adam Jorring, University of Chicago, March 2017-February 2018
Yann Koby, Princeton University, March 2017-February 2018
Anton Petukhov, MIT Sloan, March 2017-February 2018
Julian Richers, Boston University, March 2017-February 2018
Samuel Rosen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 2017-February 2018
Ishita Sen, London Business School, March 2017-February 2018
Quentin Vandeweyer, Sciences Po, March 2017-February 2018
Tianyue Ruan, NYU, March 2017-February 2018