Monika Piazzesi


Monika Piazzesi is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics at Stanford University. In 2005, when she was Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Business School, she won the Germán Bernácer Prize. The following year, she won the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Her research focuses on asset pricing and time series econometrics, especially related to bond markets and the term structure of interest rates.

Biography

Piazzesi received an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Bonn in 1994 and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 2000. She then took the position of Assistant Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. She joined the Chicago faculty in 2003 as Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and full professor in 2006. She joined the Stanford faculty in 2008 as Professor of Economics, becoming the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics in 2010. She has been director of the NBER Asset Pricing Program since 2007.

Academic work

Her Bernácer Prize citation in 2005 cites her for having "developed a unified approach that improves our understanding of the connection between asset prices including bonds, equities and real estate and the institutional features of monetary policy and business cycles."
She was co-editor of Journal of Political Economy from 2006 to 2014. From 2006-2008 she was Associate Editor of the American Economic Review,, and from 2005-2008, of the Economic Journal. From 2008 – 2011 she was an Affiliated Professor of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Selected works

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