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Yueran Ma is the Carhart Family Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Co-Director of the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance. His research interests focus on empirical studies that lie at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics. He draws insights from contracts and organizations to shed light on macroeconomic dynamics. His work proposes new perspectives on how corporate debt contracts can shape macroeconomic outcomes; he has analyzed production innovation activities over the past century to understand the power and limits of organizations. Ma has studied the effects of monetary policy innovation and presented his findings at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium. Additionally, his research examines the impact of low interest rates on financial markets and expectation formation in finance and macroeconomics, along with explorations into urban economics and real estate. He received his B.A. summa cum laude in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. He is also a recipient of several prestigious awards including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and the NSF CAREER Award.
The doctoral program at Booth is organized into 'dissertation areas' which include Accounting, Behavioral Science, Econometrics and Statistics, Finance, Marketing, and Operations Management.