Hello! 

I am a PhD candidate at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business in the Real Estate Department. I work on topics relating to residential and commercial real estate, macroeconomics, monetary policy, finance, and consumer finance. 

My job market paper lies at the intersection of monetary policy and housing markets, focusing on the path to home ownership with three main contributions:

• I construct a new mortgage rate-specific monetary policy shock, which predicts future mortgage rate changes better than existing monetary policy shocks

• Provide new empirical evidence of monetary policy transmission through the mortgage channel impacting first-time home buyer and incumbent home buyer purchases

• Within the context of a calibrated lifecycle model, I find that a transitory negative mortgage rate shock induces welfare losses for potential first-time home buyers and welfare gains for incumbent homeowners

I am on the 2025-2026 academic job market.