Hi, I'm Lira Mota. 

I am the Class of 1958 Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management.

My research lies at the intersection of asset pricing, macrofinance, and corporate finance. Much of my work focuses on corporate bond markets, where I am interested in both sides of the market: the demand side, meaning what drives investors to hold corporate bonds and how they price risk and liquidity, and the supply side, meaning how firms' financing decisions and capital structure respond to market conditions and policy. This dual perspective makes me both an asset pricer and a corporate finance economist. More broadly, my work examines how financial frictions, regulation, and monetary policy shape asset prices and corporate decisions, contributing to our understanding of portfolio allocation, the drivers of risk and return, and the transmission mechanisms through which policy affects financial markets.

Before joining Sloan, I received a PhD in finance from Columbia Business School and completed post-doctoral work at Princeton University.

Contact Information

email: liramota@mit.edu 

address: MIT Sloan School of Management. 100 Main Street E62-619. Cambridge, MA  02142.