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Marco Macchiavelli

Assistant Professor and PhD Co-Coordinator

Finance

Education

PhD in Economics, Boston College, 2015
MA in Economics, University of Bologna, 2010
BA in Economics and Finance, University of Bologna, 2008

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Finance, UMass Amherst, 2022-present
Economist, Federal Reserve Board, 2015-2022

Research Interests

Money markets
Broker-dealers
Bond liquidity
Financial stability
Dispersed information
Intelligence/Espionage
Cybersecurity

Teaching Interests

Capital markets
Financial intermediaries

Awards

Outstanding Research Award, Isenberg School of Management, 2024
Macro-Financial Modeling Fellowship, Becker-Friedman Institute, 2014

Selected Publications

Crosignani, M., Macchiavelli, M., & Silva, A. F. (2023). Pirates without borders: The propagation of cyberattacks through firms’ supply chains. Journal of Financial Economics, 147(2), 432-448.

Li, L., Li, Y., Macchiavelli, M., & Zhou, X. (2021). Liquidity restrictions, runs, and central bank interventions: Evidence from money market funds. The Review of Financial Studies, 34(11), 5402-5437.

Macchiavelli, M., & Zhou, X. (2022). Funding liquidity and market liquidity: the broker-dealer perspective. Management Science, 68(5), 3379-3398.

Carlson, M., & Macchiavelli, M. (2020). Emergency loans and collateral upgrades: How broker-dealers used federal reserve credit during the 2008 financial crisis. Journal of Financial Economics, 137(3), 701-722.

De Marco, F., Macchiavelli, M., & Valchev, R. (2022). Beyond Home Bias: International Portfolio Holdings and Information Heterogeneity. The Review of Financial Studies, 35(9), 4387-4422.