# Toomas Laarits

0 tl1221 [Tenured or Tenure Track](/taxonomy/term/4799) Assistant Professor of Finance 2019 [ Personal Website ](https://sites.google.com/view/toomaslaarits/)      ![Toomas Laarits profile photo](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_543h/public/media/tlaarits.jpg?h=2c540f04&itok=8UA6UwN5)

Kaufman Management Center

44 West Fourth Street, 9-55

New York, NY 10012

9-55 0 - Ph.D., Financial Economics, 2019

Yale University
- M.Phil., Financial Economics, 2017

Yale University
- M.A., Financial Economics, 2016

Yale University
- A.B., Mathematics, 2010

Harvard University

- Foundations of Finance

Toomas Laarits joined NYU Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Finance in July 2019. He is currently teaching Foundations of Finance in the Stern undergraduate program.

Professor Laarits research interests lie in asset pricing and financial intermediation. In recent research Professor Laarits has studied the puzzling behavior of asset markets in anticipation of Federal Open Market Committee announcements. He is also interested in the supply and demand of safe assets, and in financial history.

Professor Laarits received his PhD, MPhil and MA in Financial Economics from Yale University. He also holds an AB in Mathematics from Harvard University. Prior to graduate studies, Professor Laarits worked at the Harvard Business School as a Research Associate.

Finance

- Financial Intermediation
- Stock Market
- Bonds/Inflation Linked

Economics

- Federal Reserve Bank/Central bank
- Monetary Policy

- Asset Pricing
- Financial Intermediation

[https://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/static/cv/cv\_tl1221\_20240925.pdf](https://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/static/cv/cv_tl1221_20240925.pdf)