Current Position
Yiming Ma is the Regina Pitaro Associate Professor of Business in Columbia Business School’s Finance Division. Her academic office is in New York.
Background & Biography
Ma earned her finance doctorate at Stanford in 2018 after undergraduate study at Yale. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Notable Contributions
Her work studies liquidity transformation across banks and non-bank institutions, including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and stablecoins. She examines how this changing structure affects asset prices, financial stability and monetary-policy transmission.
Why Katharos.ai Is Following Them
Katharos.ai follows Ma because digital instruments should be assessed within the wider financial system, not in isolation. Coverage should distinguish how an instrument is marketed from the liquidity it actually offers and the conditions under which that liquidity may change. A research finding is not a guarantee of stability.
Areas to Follow
Follow research that specifies the institutions, balance sheets and periods being studied. Look for the assumptions behind comparisons between banks and non-banks, and separate documented evidence from proposed mechanisms. Do not translate an academic discussion of stablecoins into an endorsement of an issuer or a prediction of future returns.
Reporting Scope
This profile concerns public professional work. Country identifies the academic institution’s location, not citizenship or private residence. Inclusion is not endorsement by Katharos.ai, the subject or the institution. Academic affiliations do not validate a product’s claims, and this profile is not investment advice.
Sources for Further Reading
Personal academic biography — https://www.yimingma.com/