Education

Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, Boston MA, May 2020

Dissertation Title: Essays in International Finance

Dissertation Committee:  Tarek Hassan, Simon Gilchrist, Andrea Vedolin, Stephen Terry

Graduate Researcher Visiting Scholar, New York University, New York, NY, 2017-2019

B.A., Economics (Magna Cum Laude), Columbia University, New York, NY, 2012

Fields of Interest 

International Finance, Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics 

Working Papers 

“UIP Violations and the Cost of Capital: Firm-level Evidence,” (Job Market Paper) November 2023

“International Portfolio Holdings and Return Differentials,” March 2019. 

“On the Edge of Doom: Optimal Bank Recapitalization with Sovereign Default,” February 2019.

Work in Progress 

“Risk, Returns and Allocations in Ultra-High Net Worth Portfolios”

Conferences and Presentations

NBER Summer Institute, Household Finance, Cambridge, MA, 2021 *

NBER Summer Institute, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Cambridge, MA, 2021 *

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2020

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY, 2020

NYU Stern School of Business, New York, NY, 2020

Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2019 

Green Line Macro Meeting, Boston College, Boston, MA, 2017, 2018, 2019

German Economists Abroad, Bonn, Germany, 2018 

MFM Winter Meeting, New York, NY, 2018 **

CITE Conference, Chicago, IL, 2017 **

MFM Summer Workshop, Bretton Woods, NH, 2017 **

( * presentation by co-author, ** poster)

Fellowships and Awards

Dissertation Fellowship, Macro Financial Modeling Group, University of Chicago, 2017/18

Dean’s Fellowship and Summer Support, Boston University, 2014-2019

Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University, 2012

John Jay Scholarship, Columbia University, 2009-2012

Work Experience 

Head of North America Macro Research, Eisler Capital, New York 2023 - current

Executive Director, Economics Research, Morgan Stanley, New York, NY 2020-2023

Research Advisor, Addepar, New York, NY 2020-current

Research Assistant for Simon Gilchrist, Boston University, 2016 

Research Assistant for Wei Jiang, Columbia Business School, 2010-2011

Fellow, Global Macro Research, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY, 2016, 2017-2019

Fiscal Sustainability Analysis, German Federal Ministry of Finance, 2015

Research Advisor, Kensho Technologies, Boston, MA, 2015

Analyst, Global Macro Research, Goldman Sachs, 2012-2014

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow, Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis, Department of Economics, Boston University, Fall 2015

Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, Columbia University, Spring 2012

Languages  

English, German (native), French

Computer Skills: STATA, Matlab, SAS, Python, LaTeX