Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876

America’s First Research University

Our primary faculty research groups are focused in our five core areas: applied microeconomics, econometrics, economic theory, finance, and macroeconomics. Our joint faculty includes experts from the Carey Business School and the School of Advanced International Studies.

Finance Group

Coverage includes: applied and theoretical finance, bankruptcy, corporate re-structuring, financial econometrics, financial regulation, fixed income securities, sovereign lending

  • Faculty: Brendan Daley, Greg Duffee, Olivier Jeanne, Jonathan Wright
  • Jointly Appointed Faculty: Alessandro Rebucci (Carey Business School)
  • Undergraduate minor in financial economics offered in conjunction with the Center for Financial Economics
  • "Department of Economics" signage in the foyer with the Johns Hopkins logo displayed in raised letters.

    The Prestakes of Stock Market Investing

    How rational is the stock market and how efficiently does it process information? We use machine learning to establish a practical measure of rational and efficient expectation formation while identifying […]

  • Cover of the journal of finance

    Expected Inflation and Other Determinants of Treasury Yields

    Shocks to nominal bond yields consist of news about expected future inflation, expected future real short rates, and expected excess returns—all over the bond’s life. I estimate the magnitude of […]

  • American Economic Review logo

    Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

    This paper combines a data-rich environment with a machine learning algorithm to provide new estimates of time-varying systematic expectational errors (“belief distortions”) embedded in survey responses. We find sizable distortions […]

  • American Economic Review logo

    Bargaining and News

    We study a bargaining model in which a buyer makes frequent offers to a privately informed seller, while gradually learning about the seller’s type from “news.” We show that the […]

  • cover of the review of economic studies

    Macroprudential Regulation Versus Mopping Up After the Crash

    How should macroprudential policy be designed when policymakers also have access to liquidity provision tools to manage crises? We show in a tractable model of systemic banking risk that there […]

  • Brookings Papers 2022 conference cover

    Understanding U.S. Inflation During the COVID Era

    The paper summarized here is part of the Fall 2022 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA), the leading conference series and journal in economics for timely, cutting-edge […]