Julia Selgrad

Julia Selgrad serves as Assistant Professor of Finance and Liew Family Junior Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business since 2024, specializing in empirical finance and macro-finance intersections.

Her educational foundation includes:

• Ph.D. in Finance, NYU Stern School of Business (2024)
• B.A. in Economics and Management, University of Oxford (2018)

Selgrad's research pioneers novel methodologies in monetary policy transmission and emerging risk quantification. She investigates how central bank operations like quantitative easing propagate through portfolio rebalancing channels into corporate bond markets and real investment decisions, while developing innovative quantity-based approaches to hedge climate and geopolitical risks by analyzing fund manager trading behaviors around idiosyncratic belief shocks.

Her working papers reveal consistent empirical patterns: monetary policy effects exhibit significant heterogeneity based on corporate planning horizons, climate risk hedging outperforms traditional price-based methods through cross-sectional trading analysis, and quantitative tightening mechanisms require distinct analytical frameworks from quantitative easing.

Scientific recognition includes:

• Liew Family Junior Faculty Fellowship

Selgrad teaches Seminar: Finance during Autumn 2024, focusing on current research frontiers. Her fellowship provides dedicated research support for investigating unconventional monetary policy channels and emerging financial risks, though specific grant details remain undisclosed. She currently maintains an active pipeline of six working papers spanning monetary policy transmission, climate finance, and geopolitical risk analytics without documented student supervision to date.