Christopher Clayton

Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

I do research in international finance and macroeconomics, finance, and macroeconomics. My research topics include geoeconomics and geopolitics, reserve currency internationalization, multinational banking, financial regulation, and monetary policy. I received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2020.

Email: christopher.clayton@yale.edu.

My CV

New and Recently Updated


"A Theory of Economic Coercion and Fragmentation" (with Matteo Maggiori, Jesse Schreger), March 2024

"A Framework for Geoeconomics" (with Matteo Maggiori, Jesse Schreger), Jan 2024

A Theory of Dynamic Inflation Targets” (with Andreas Schaab), April 2023
Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Review

Internationalizing Like China” (with Amanda Dos Santos, Matteo Maggiori, Jesse Schreger), Feb 2024
Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Review
NBER WP with further results