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Christopher J. Palmer is the Eastman Kodak Associate Professor of Management and Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches corporate finance. His research focuses on credit, real estate, and labor markets, particularly how they respond during periods of significant upheaval. Palmer has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He previously taught real estate finance at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and has served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School and the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Before entering academia, he consulted for Compass-Lexecon. Palmer holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. His current research evaluates policies designed to improve retirement savings and reform the personal bankruptcy system.
MIT Sloan School of Management • Cambridge, MA
Teaching corporate finance and conducting research on financial decision-making.