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Emil Verner is the Albert F. (1942) and Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Associate Professor of Global Management and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Verner’s research focuses on the connection between financial markets and the macroeconomy in both advanced and emerging markets. His recent research examines the role of household credit markets in amplifying business cycle fluctuations. In related work, Verner has also studied the real economic consequences of banking sector distress during financial crises around the world over the past 150 years. 

Verner received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen and his PhD in economics from Princeton University.

Current Research Focus: Verner's current research focuses on the connection between financial markets and economic activity, both in advanced and emerging markets. In several recent studies, he has examined the role of credit markets in amplifying business cycle fluctuations. In related work, Verner has also studied the real economic consequences of banking sector distress during financial crises around the world over the past 150 years. Finally, Verner’s work also explores how finance affects society more broadly, including the role that financial distress has played in the recent rise in populism.

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Verner wins Ieke van den Burg Prize

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"Business as Usual: Bank Climate Commitments, Lending, and Engagement."

Sastry, Parinitha, Emil Verner, and David Marques-Ibanez, Working Paper. 2024. European Central Bank Working Paper Series No. 2921.

"Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations."

Müller, Karsten and Emil Verner. The Review of Economic Studies (2023): rdad112.

"How do Borrowers Adjust in a Household Foreign Currency Debt Crisis?"

Gyongyosi, Gyozo, Judit Rariga, and Emil Verner, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6835-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2022.

"Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu."

Correia, Sergio, Stephan Luck, and Emil Verner. The Journal of Economic History Vol. 82, No. 4 (2022): 917-957. SSRN Preprint.

"Reconsidering the Costs and Benefits of Debt Booms for the Economy."

Verner, Emil. In Leveraged: The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility, edited by Moritz Schularick, University of Chicago Press, 2022. Replication Kit.

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