Co-Directors
Andrea Eisfeldt holds the Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Business. Her research has focused on topics including market liquidity, the role of intangibles in asset pricing, bank valuation, and macro-finance. She has been an NBER affiliate since 2014.
Sydney C. Ludvigson is the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University. Her research focuses on the interplay between asset markets and macroeconomic activity. She has been an NBER affiliate since 2003.
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