Research Interests

Financial intermediation; corporate finance; and household finance

Featured Publications

• 1. Monetary Stimulus and Bank Lending, with Itay Goldstein and Andrew MacKinlay Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
  2. Housing Price Booms and Crowding-Out Effects in Bank Lending, with Itay Goldstein and Andrew MacKinlay Review of Financial Studies, July 2018.
  3. Managing Performance Signals Through Delay: Evidence from Venture Capital, with Michael Ewens Management Science, June 2018. 
  4. Income Inequality, Tax Policy, and Economic Growth, with Siddhartha Biswas and Rong Hai Economic Journal, May 2017.
  5. The Real Effects of Financial (Dis)integration, with Rong Hai, Hans Holter, and Serhiy Stepanchuk Journal of Monetary Economics, Jan 2017.
  6. Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply, with Hans Holter and Serhiy Stepanchuk Journal of Monetary Economics, May 2015. (Lead Article)
  7. Does Shareholder Coordination Matter? Evidence from Private Placements, with Nickolay Gantchev Journal of Financial Economics, April 2013.

Teaching and Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Finance, University of Miami Business School, 2019--
• Assistant Professor, Finance, University of Miami Business School, 2015--19
• Assistant Professor, Finance, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2011--16
• Instructor, Finance, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2010--11
• Treasury and Relative Value Groups, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., NYC, NY, 2005
• Financial Instruments and Credit Groups, Citadel Investment Group, Chicago, IL, 2003--05

Degrees

• Ph.D., Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Dec 2010
• M.S., EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
• B.Tech., CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2001

Honors and Awards

• Excellence in Teaching Award, Master of Science in Finance, University of Miami, 2018, 2019
• Top 40 under 40 Business School Professor, Poets and Quants, 2018
• Douglas Evanoff Best Paper Award, The Chicago Financial Institutions Conf., 2016
• Marshall Blume Award in Financial Research, The Wharton School, 2013
• Shmuel Kandel Award, Utah Winter Finance, 2010
• President of India Gold Medal, IIT Guwahati, 2001

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