Tim de Silva

Tim de Silva is an assistant professor of Finance at Stanford GSB. Professor de Silva received his PhD in Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management and his BA in Financial Economics and Applied Mathematics from Claremont McKenna College. Professor de Silva’s primary research field is household finance. A common theme in his work is the use of microeconomic data to discipline quantitative models of household behavior that can be used to answer policy questions, such as the design of student loans. He also works on questions in behavioral economics and macroeconomics, such as how households and investors form beliefs and the implications of these beliefs for asset prices and the transmission of monetary policy.