David Thesmar (born in France on July 3, 1972)[1] 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 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.
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.
David Thesmar's research interests include behavioural economics, entrepreneurship, productivity and banking.