Research

Job Market Paper 

How Does Pledging Home Equity Affect Small Business Loan Demand, Terms, and Outcomes? Evidence from SBA 7(A) Program

• Runner-up UM Ross Terrell Paper Award, 2024

• Runner-up UM Ross Terrell Paper Award, 2023 

• Mitsui Center Research Grant

• Economics Research Grant

• Rackham Research Grant 

Working Papers: 

New Products, 2024, with Abhiroop Mukherjee, Bruno Pellegrino, Alminas Zaldokas, Tomas Thornquist 

• Innovation Information Initiative Technical Working Group Meeting, NBER, December 6-7 2024 

• Stigler Affiliate Fellows Conference, 2024 

• Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, 2022

Minimally Orthogonal Causal Effect Estimation, 2024, with Daniel J Clauw, Michael L Burns, Maggie Makar, accepted at the Advanced in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024) Causal Representation Learning Workshop

• NeurIPS 2024

Causal Mediation Analysis with Multi-dimensional and Indirectly Observed Mediators, 2023, with Ziyang Jiang, Yiling Liu, Michael H Klein, Ahmed Aloui, Keyu Li, Vahid Tarokh, David Carlson

Publication: 

Estimating Causal Effect using a Multi-task Deep Ensemble, 2023, with Ziyang Jiang, Zhuoran Hou, Yiling Liu, Keyu Li, David Carlson, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)