Alp Simsek

Alp Simsek is Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. His research focuses on the connections between financial markets and the macroeconomy, with an emphasis on understanding aggregate fluctuations driven by beliefs and speculation. Most recently, he has been analyzing the links between asset prices, monetary policy, and business cycles. He has published extensively in top economics and finance journals. He has been awarded several prizes in research and teaching, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Brattle Prize for the distinguished paper in corporate finance, and the Western Financial Association NASDAQ award for the best paper in asset pricing, and the best undergraduate and graduate teacher awards at the MIT economics department. Before joining Yale, Alp Simsek was an Associate Professor of Economics at MIT, and previously, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Simsek earned his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT.Alp Simsek is a Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University and an Associate Professor of Economics at MIT. He has an economics Ph.D. degree from MIT in 2010. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2015.