Hala Moussawi

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Finance at Stanford GSB.

My research examines how government interventions and regulatory competition shape financial markets, with a focus on municipal bonds and global banks. I will join Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor of Finance this summer.

In my job market paper, I show that state tax shields in municipal bonds reduce local bond yield spreads but distort risk-sharing and impose negative externalities on other states. In other work, I show that the U.S. and China have divergent approaches to compliance enforcement and explore how these strategies impact global banks.

This research builds on my experience in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. I hold a B.A. in Financial Economics with a concentration in Mathematics from Columbia University.