J. R. Scott is a PhD candidate in finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research interests include macro-finance, asset pricing, and public finance.

He is on the job market during the 2023-2024 academic year.

His job market paper, “Inflation, Risk Premia, and the Business Cycle”, proposes a novel macro-finance model to rationalize the risk price puzzle — the previously undocumented empirical disconnect between inflation and risk premium shocks.

Learn more about J. R. by reading his CV here.