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Simcha Barkai

Assistant Professor

Finance

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Biography

Simcha Barkai is an assistant professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. He studies competition between firms in the U.S. and implications for macroeconomic and asset pricing. His work on the decline in the labor share of income has been covered by The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , The Economist , The Financial Times , Bloomberg , Forbes , Harvard Business Review , The Washington Post , The New Republic , and The Nation .

Official evaluation summary

4.30 / 5

Based on 537 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

Ratings are this instructor’s response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations, on a scale of 1 to 5.

  • MFIN1127 Corporate Finance
    Instructor rating 4.28 / 5 · Course rating 4.16 / 5 · 377 responses
    Taught Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
  • MFIN8807 Corporate Finance
    Instructor rating 4.36 / 5 · Course rating 4.25 / 5 · 160 responses
    Taught Fall 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021

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