Bio

Anna Cieslak conducts research in macro-finance and empirical asset pricing with emphasis on fixed income markets. Her recent work studies the dynamics of the Treasury yield curve, including Treasury risk premia, the behavior of real rates and interest rate volatility. Her interests also involve the effects of monetary policy on asset markets, and questions related to sovereign credit risk, and financial econometrics. Anna holds master’s degree from the Warsaw School of Economics and received her PhD degree from the University of Lugano in Switzerland in June 2011. She spent an academic year as a visiting PhD student at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. In 2011, she joined the faculty at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. She joined Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in July 2015.