Christopher Palmer is an Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he teaches courses on corporate finance. Previously, Professor Palmer was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where he was a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a Faculty Associate with the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics.
His research focuses on credit, real estate, and labour markets. Professor Palmer earned a PhD in Economics from MIT, where he was also a Harriss Fellow at the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy and a Visiting Fellow at the Boston Federal Reserve. Prior to his time at MIT, he consulted with Compass-Lexecon. He received a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Brigham Young University.
