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Lira Mota is an Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research lies at the intersection of asset pricing, macro-finance, and corporate finance. Mota's work examines how financial frictions, regulation, and monetary policy shape asset prices and corporate decisions, contributing to the understanding of portfolio allocation, the drivers of risk and return, and the transmission mechanisms of policy effects on financial markets. Mota received her PhD in finance from Columbia Business School and completed post-doctoral work at Princeton University. She has been recognized for her research, winning the 2025 North America Paper Award from the Corporate Finance Society for her paper titled "Financially Sophisticated Firms: A Demand-Based Approach to Corporate Financing," presented at the SFS Cavalcade North America 2025 annual conference.
MIT Sloan School of Management • Cambridge, MA
Teaching and conducting research in finance.