David Thesmar is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an expert in corporate finance, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship, and behavioral economics. Recently, he has studied the impact of financing constraints on the real economy. Thesmar also investigates risk management and systemic risk in banking. He has also researched firm organization and non-rational decision making on corporate strategies. His work makes systematic use of large datasets but emphasizes a parsimonious modelling approach to address economic questions.
Asked to imagine that they were employees, shareholders or customers of a firm that continued to operate in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, a large fraction of respondents to a June 2022 survey of a representative sample of Americans said that they would be willing to show their disapproval. That is among the findings […]
