Michael Blank
成人大片 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Assistant Professor of Finance
成人大片 Graduate School of Business
Michael Blank is an assistant professor of finance at the 成人大片 Graduate School of Business. His research employs innovative empirical methods and large administrative datasets to study how frictions in financial and labor markets interact to shape macroeconomic outcomes, the long-run consequences of credit and asset price fluctuations, and optimal macroprudential and stabilization policies. His work also studies the determinants and impacts of heterogeneous investor beliefs and human capital. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2024. Before graduate school, he worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He holds undergraduate degrees in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth College.
Focal Areas: Money and Finance, Regulation and Competition, Taxes and Public Spending, Work