NBER profile: Antoinette Schoar.

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Antoinette Schoar is an NBER Research Associate in the Program on Corporate Finance and chair of the NBER's Entrepreneurship Working Group. She is also the Michael M. Koerner ('49) Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

After receiving her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Cologne (Germany), Schoar earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2000. She joined the Sloan School faculty that year and became a tenured professor in 2005.

Schoar's research interests range from entrepreneurship and the financing of small businesses in emerging markets to household finance and intermediation in retail financial markets. She also is a cofounder of ideas42, a research lab on...