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EMPLOYMENT

HEC Montreal, 2021 - Present

EDUCATION

PhD in Financial Management,   IESE Business School,   2016 - 2021 

Visiting Research Fellow,   London School of Economics,   2020

Master in Global Management (with Honor),   Thunderbird/Arizona State University,   2015

Bachelor in Economics/Business Administration (Double Major),   University of Oregon,   2014 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Ownership Structure, Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance, Corporate Investment, Banking

PUBLICATIONS

Beyond the Target: M&A Decisions and Rival Ownership (with Miguel Anton, Jose Azar, and Mireia Gine) - Journal of Financial Economics, 2022

Taking No Chances: Lender Monitoring and Corporate Acquisitions - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2022

Great Trees are Good for Shade: Creditor Monitoring Under Common Ownership - Finance Research Letters, 2022

The Mutual Friend: Dual Holder Monitoring and Firm Investment Efficiency (with Miguel Anton) - Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2020

WORKING PAPER

Agree to Disagree: Lenders' Equity Holdings, Within-Syndicate Conflicts, and Covenant Design (with Yongqiang Chu and Zhanbing Xiao) - Journal of Financial Intermediation, R&R

Shareholder-Creditor Conflicts and Limits to Arbitrage: Evidence from the Equity Lending Market (with Yongqiang Chu, Pedro Saffi, and Jason Sturgess)

When Bondholders Are Lenders: Incentive Alignment or Information Spillover? (with Kai Li and Xinyan Yan)

CONFERENCE/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS (*presented by coauthor)

2023:

Delaware*, CUHK-Shenzhen*, Nanjing, CICF, NFA

2022:

MFA*, PFMC

2021:

Paris December Finance Meeting; FIRS; 28th Finance Forum; CEIBS; UC3M; SKEMA; Bristol; SMU(Cancelled); HEC Montreal; Stevens Institute of Technology

2020:

SFS Calvacade NA*; American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Meeting; AFA PhD Poster Session; IESE Seminar; LSE PhD Seminar; 28th Finance Forum PhD Day; Fudan Fanhai International School of Finance

2019:

AFA PhD Poster Session; 2nd Catalan Economic Society Conference (CESC); Financial Management Association (FMA) European Meeting; European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Meeting; Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting; FMA Asia/Pacific Meeting; 27th Spanish Finance Forum*; MadBar Workshop*; IESE Seminar

2018:

26th Spanish Finance Forum; Paris Financial Management Conference; IESE Seminar

DISCUSSIONS

2023:

CICF, Rotman Junior Conference

2022:

EFA Barcelona, FMA

2021:

Paris December Finance Meeting

2019:

FMA Europe; FMA Asia/Pacific; Asian FA; EFMA

2018:

26th Spanish Finance Forum; PFMC

REFEREE SERVICE

Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, The Financial Review, Economic Modelling, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Finance Research Letters, Industrial and Corporate Change