David Thesmar

David Thesmar earned a B.Sc. in economics and physics from the École Polytechnique in 1995 and a M.Sc. from the Paris School of Economics and ENSAE, followed by an M.Phil. in economics from the London School of Economics. In 2000, he obtained his Ph.D. in economics from EHESS for a thesis supervised by Pierre Cahuc, Francis Kramarz, Patrick Rey, Christophe Chamley and Daniel Cohen. After his graduation, Thesmar began to work as a lecturer and researcher at ENSAE before becoming Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris and being promoted to full professor in 2009. In 2016, following a short visiting appointment at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Thesmar moved to the MIT Sloan School of Management, where has been since working as the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and as Professor of Finance. In parallel to his academic positions, Thesmar maintains affiliations with the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Cercle des économistes and is a member of the European Economic Association, European Finance Association, and the American Finance Association. Finally, he performs editorial duties for the Journal of Finance and the Review of Finance.

David Thesmar (born in France on March 7, 1972) is a French economist who works as Franco Modigliani Professor Financial Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include corporate finance, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship and behavioural economics. In 2007, he was awarded the Prize of the Best Young Economist of France.