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Matteo Maggiori

Moghadam Family Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Matteo Maggiori is the Moghadam Family Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

His research focuses on international macroeconomics and finance. He is a co-founder and director of the Global Capital Allocation Project. His research topics have included the analysis of exchange rates under imperfect capital markets, capital flows, the international monetary system, reserve currencies, geoeconomics, tax havens, very long-run discount rates and climate change, and expectations and portfolio investment. His research combines theory and data with the aim of improving international economic policy.

He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research.

Among a number of honors, he is the recipient of the Fischer Black Prize awarded to an outstanding financial economist under the age of 40, the Carnegie and Guggenheim fellowships, and the Bernacer Prize for outstanding contributions in macroeconomics and finance by a European economist under age 40.

Education
Ph.D. Finance, University of California at Berkeley · M.Sc. Economics and Finance, Warwick University, 2004-05 · B.Sc. (laurea triennale) in Economics, Luiss Guido Carli
Topics
Economics · Finance · Geoeconomic Power · International Reserve Currencies · Exchange Rates Under Imperfect Capital Markets · International Capital Flows · The International Monetary System · Tax Havens · Very Long-Run Discount Rates & Climate Change · Expectations & Portfolio Investment

In the Encyclopedia1

Selected publications10

  1. 2026Global Imbalances and Power Imbalances, 2026, with Christopher Clayton and Jesse Schreger In preparation for the 2026 AEA Papers & Proceedings.
  2. 2025Investor Beliefs and Expectation Formation, with Stefano Giglio, Joachim Rillo, Johannes Stroebel, Stephen Utkus, Xiao Xu, In preparation for the Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2025.
  3. 2025Putting Economics Back into Geoeconomics, 2025, with Christopher Clayton and Jesse Schreger, in preparation for the 2025 NBER Annual Conference on Macroeconomics.
  4. 2025Internationalizing Like China, with Christopher Clayton, Amanda Dos Santos, and Jesse Schreger, American Economic Review, 2025, Vol 115, 3, pg 864-902.
  5. 2025The Political Economy of Geoeconomic Power, with Christopher Clayton and Jesse Schreger, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, Vol. 115, pg 588-592.
  6. 2024A Framework for Geoeconomics, 2025, with Christopher Clayton and Jesse Schreger Best Paper Award in Geoeconomics, for junior researchers, CEPR-Kiel-Bocconi, 2024 Forthcoming at Econometrica.
  7. 2024Corporate Debt Structure and International Currency Bias, with Brent Neiman and Jesse Schreger, IMF Economic Review, prepared for the conference in honor of Ken Rogoff, 2024, pg 1-24.
  8. 2024Global Capital Allocation, with Sergio Florez-Orrego, Matteo Maggiori, Jesse Schreger, Ziwen Sun, Serdil Tinda, Annual Review of Economics, 2024, 16.
  9. 2023Four Facts About ESG Beliefs and Portfolios, with Stefano Giglio, Johannes Stroebel, Zhenhao Tan, Stephen Utkus, Xiao Xu, Journal of Financial Economics, 2025, Vol 164. Moskowitz Prize, Honorable Mention, 2023
  10. 2023China in Tax Havens, with Christopher Clayton, Antonio Coppola, Amanda Dos Santos, and Jesse Schreger, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, Vol. 113, pg 114-19.

Positions & affiliations8

  • Moghadam Family Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2022 - Present)
  • Founding Co-Director, Global Capital Allocation Project (2019 - Present)
  • Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2021-22)
  • Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure), Stanford Graduate School of Business (2019-21)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University (2018-2019)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University (2014-2018)
  • Fellow, International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University (2012 - 2013)
  • Assistant Professor, Finance Department, Stern School of Business; Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University (2012 - 2014)

Honours & awards14

  • Premio Leonardo, Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (BAC), 2024
  • Banque de France and Toulouse School of Economics Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance, Junior Prize for Money and Macroeconomics, 2024
  • Bernacer Prize for outstanding contributions in macroeconomics and finance by a European economist under age 40, 2022
  • Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2022
  • Fischer Black Prize for an outstanding financial economist under age 40, 2021
  • Carlo Alberto Medal for an outstanding Italian economist under age 40, 2019
  • Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2019
  • Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2018
  • CAREER grant, National Science Foundation, 2017
  • Young Researcher Award, LBS AQR Asset Management Institute, 2017
  • Furer Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard University, 2016-19
  • C. Douglas Dillon Fellow in International Affairs, Harvard University, 2016-17
  • Review of Economic Studies May Meetings (European tour), 2012
  • SAC Capital PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, Western Finance Association, 2012