Alp Simsek

I am a Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. I am also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University and an Associate Professor of Economics at MIT.

I received bachelors degrees from MIT in 2004, a master's degree from MIT in 2005, and a Ph.D. degree from MIT in 2010. I was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2015.

My research, advising, and teaching interests are centered in macroeconomics and finance, and extend into international and behavioral finance. In my research, I study the connections between financial markets and the macroeconomy, with an emphasis on the fluctuations driven by beliefs and speculation. While I am primarily an applied theorist, I also engage with data to test the mechanisms that I emphasize. 

Here is a brief overview of my research through October 2021

Here is my Google Scholar page