Research Interests
Expectations and Financial Decision-Making, Corporate Finance, FinTech and EntrepreneurshipPublished and Accepted Papers
IQ, Expectations, and Choice(with D. Hoang, M. Paloviita, and M. Weber)
Review of Economic Studies, Conditionally Accepted
Presentations: 2019 AEA, 2018 CEPR HF
Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal, Kommersant, Handelsblatt
Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations
(with U. Malmendier, J. Ospina, and M. Weber)
Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming
Presentations: 2020 WFA, 2020 SED, 2019 NBER BF, 2019 SITE, 2018 AEA
Media Coverage: NBER Digest (Bloomberg Surveillance), Brookings, VoxEU.org, Obserwator Finansowy Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap
(with U. Malmendier and M. Weber)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Conditionally Accepted
Presentations: 2019 NBER CF
Robo-advising (with A.G. Rossi)
in Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Technological Finance, forthcoming
Editors: R. Rau, R. Wardrop, L. Zingales
Regressive Mortgage Credit Redistribution in the Post-crisis Era (with A.G. Rossi)
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming
Presentations: 2018 AEA, 2017 NBER SI (HF), 2017 NBER CF, 2017 Duke/UNC CF, 2017 FIRS
Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg View, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, CBS Radio, Chicago Tribune, Morningstar, Oxford Business Law Blog, Smith Brain Trust
The Promises and Pitfalls of Robo-advising (with N.R. Prabhala and A.G. Rossi)
Review of Financial Studies, 2019:32(5), pp.1983-2020
Presentations: 2018 SFS Cavalcade, 2017 NBER BF, 2017 Miami BF, 2017 NYU Stern FinTech, RFS FinTech Registered Proposals Workshop
Cognitive Abilities and Inflation Expectations (with D. Hoang, M. Paloviita, and M. Weber)
American Economic Review P&P, May 2019
Presentations: 2019 AEA
Historical Antisemitism, Ethnic Specialization, and Financial Development
(with M. Prokopczuk and M. Weber)
Review of Economic Studies, 2019:86(3), pp.1170-1206
Presentations: 2015 NBER SI (POL), 2015 EFA, 2015 SED, 2014 NBER BE (Fall), 2014 Miami BF
Media Coverage: The Economist, The American Interest, La Stampa, Die Welt, Haaretz, Share Radio, The Marker, Tablet Magazine, Världen idag, Dinheiro Vivo, 444.hu, NEWSru, Merdeka, Al Balad, Actualité Juive Hebdo, CreeEnLaTolerancia, Ökonomenstimme, VoxEU.org
Unconventional Fiscal Policy (with D. Hoang and M. Weber)
American Economic Review P&P, 2018:108, pp.519-523
Presentations: 2018 AEA
Flexible Prices and Leverage (with R.Liu, C. Pflueger, and M. Weber)
Journal of Financial Economics, 2018:129(1), pp.46-68
Presentations: 2016 NBER CF, 2016 WFA, 2016 ASU Sonoran WFC, 2016 CF Symposium
Telecracy: Testing for Channels of Persuasion (with G. Barone and G. Narciso)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015:7(2), pp.30-60
Media Coverage: VoxEU.org,
WSJ Blog,
lavoce.info,
IlFattoQuotidiano
Working Papers
Managing Households' Expectations with Unconventional Policies(with D. Hoang and M. Weber)
Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Financial Studies
Presentations: 2018 AEA, 2015 NBER ME
Media Coverage: Bloomberg Radio (Bloomberg Surveillance), Wall Street Journal (Real Time Economics), World Economic Forum (Agenda), Il Fatto Quotidiano, Die Welt, Main Street, Penzügyi Szelme, Poleconomix (προτασεις), Mendimi Ekonomik i Javës, Econbrowser, Science Daily, VoxEu.org, lavoce.info, Ökonomenstimme
Crowdsourcing Peer Information to Change Spending Behavior
(with A. G. Rossi and M. Weber)
Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Financial Studies
Presentations: 2020 AFA, 2019 Miami BF, 2019 EFA
Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal, CNN Business, Forbes, Market Watch
Identity and Choice Under Risk
Reject and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy
2015 Cubist Systematic Strategies Phd Award for Outstanding Research, WFA
Presentations:2016 AFA, 2015 WFA, 2013 NBER BE, 2014 Miami BF Conference
Media Coverage: Reuters, Bloomberg View, World Economic Forum (Agenda), The Globe and Mail, Daily Mail, The Peninsula, China Economic Information Network, SigFig Blog, China Tells, CalvinAyre.com, PokerGround.pl, Oe! (proexpansion), VoxEu.org
Trust and Contracts: Empirical Evidence (with J. Xie and J. Yao )
Presentations: 2020 SFS Cavalcade, 2020 EFA
How Costly Are Cultural Biases? (with P. Ghosh , R. Jain, and A.G. Rossi )
Tear Down This Wall Street: Anti-finance Rhetoric, Subjective Beliefs, and Investment
Presentations: 2018 AFA, 2016 Yale Junior, 2016 Caltech Junior
Basic Education and Persistent Regional Inequalities
2014 Cubist Systematic Strategies Phd Award for Outstanding Research, WFA
2014 Best Finance Phd Award in Honor of Prof. Greenbaum
Presentations: 2014 NBER SI (EFG-BGZ), 2014 WFA, 2014 SFS Cavalcade
Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policies
(with D. Hoang, M. Paloviita, and M. Weber)
Presentations: 2018 NBER ME, 2018 Cowles Macro, 2018 CEPR HF
Finance, Talent Allocation, and Growth (with L. Frésard)
Presentations: 2018 SFS Cavalcade
Bank Screening and the Leverage of Newly Founded Firms (with M. C. Bustamante)
Presentations: 2018 EFA
Perceived Precautionary Savings Motives: Evidence from FinTech (with T. Rauter, C. Scheuch, and M. Weber)
Presentations: 2020 AEA, 2020 AFA, 2020 SFS Cavalcade, 2020 FIRS, 2019 Columbia NFIT
Punish One, Teach a Hundred: The Sobering Effect of Peer Punishment on the Unpunished (with M. Weber and J. Xie )
Presentations: 2020 NBER CE, 2019 AFA, 2019 EFA
Coordinated Activism and Firm Value
Best Student Paper at the 24th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (second prize)
From Financial History to History & Finance
Work in Progress
Diverse Policy Committees Are More Effective (with A. Fuster and M. Weber)Correcting Behavioral Biases with FinTech (with N.R. Prabhala and A.G. Rossi)
Correcting Market Failures in Entrepreneurial Finance (with G. Tate and L. Yang)
Nationalistic Labor Policies Hinder Innovation (with M. Weber, J. Xie, and L. Yang)
Phd Mini-courses
Cultural Finance SAFE--Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt, August 2018Teaching Experience
Carroll School of Management- Fundamentals of Finance/Financial ManagementPersonal Performance Evaluations 2019- UG-1: 4.5/5, UG-2: 4.6/5
Personal Performance Evaluations 2020- UG-1: 4.9/5, UG-2: 4.7/5, MBA: 4.9/5
R.H. Smith School of Business - Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
Personal Performance Evaluations 2016 - MBA-1: 3.7/4, MBA-2: 3.9/4, MFin: 3.7/4
Personal Performance Evaluations 2017 - MBA: 3.96/4, MFin: 3.7/4
Personal Performance Evaluations 2018 - MBA: 3.6/4, MFin: 3.9/4
Winner, 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award
Haas School of Business - MBA Corporate Finance, TA (Prof. Ulrike Malmendier), Spring 2014
Evaluation: mean 6.6/7, median 7/7 Comments (if any)