I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management. I received my PhD from the Economics Department at Columbia University.
My research explores topics in real estate, corporate finance, and macro-finance.
I am particularly interested in the spatial dimensions of firm financing and investment. In another set of projects, I use administrative data to examine the incidence of taxes and macroprudential regulation on real estate markets. My work also touches on household finance and intermediation aspects of property investment, including delinquency and home equity credit lines.
My CV is here My SSRN page Google Scholar
I am currently hiring part-time research assistants for my projects. If you are a Yale undergraduate or graduate student, please see application instructions here.
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and I are hiring a full-time pre-doc RA to work with us at Yale on projects at the intersection of real estate and household finance. Please apply through the Yale Tobin Center portal here.
Recent updates:
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New November 2023 version of, "Coming in at a Trickle: The Optimal Frequency of Public Benefits," joint with Shogo Sakabe. We added counterfactuals for pension reforms aimed at raising retirement ages.
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I uploaded a draft of my new paper, "Spatially Targeted LTV Policies and Collateral Values," joint with Chun-Che Chi and Ming-Jen Lin. Comments welcome!
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My paper, "Property Tax Sales, Private Capital, and Gentrification in the U.S." won the best paper award at the 2023 FMA Napa/Sonoma Conference.
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Related to the recently decided Supreme Court case on home equity theft, I published a policy brief on property tax sale reform through George Washington University's Institute of Public Policy.