Yueran Ma is assistant professor of finance and Liew Family Junior Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth. Her main research interest is empirical studies at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics. Her work covers topics including debt contracts and macroeconomic implications, assets and production activities of non-financial firms, low interest rates and financial markets, and expectations in finance and macroeconomics. She received B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.