Avantika Pal

Ph.D. Candidate in Finance 

Olin Business School


About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Finance at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. 

My primary research interests include household finance and labor & finance. I am also interested in topics in banking and financial regulation. I will be joining University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Gies College of Business in Summer 2024.

Previously, I graduated from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi with a Master of Science in Quantitative Economics in 2015, and completed my Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors Distinction from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University in 2013.

I am an academic research intern at Equifax Inc.  I worked as an analyst at BlackRock from 2015-2017.

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