Friday, August 22, 2025

Monika Piazzesi is the Joan Kenny Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and a Professor (by courtesy) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

She was the President of the American Finance Association in 2024, and received the Elaine Bennett Research Prize and the Bernazer Price for Research in Macroeconomics and Finance.  She is a research associate at the NBER, where she was the director of the NBER Asset Pricing Program. She is also a Fellow at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. During the years 2006-2014, she was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Prior to joining Stanford, she taught at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and UCLA Anderson after her Diplom in Economics from the University of Bonn and her Ph.D. from Stanford. Her work specializes in macro-finance, including monetary policy, fixed-income markets, and housing markets.