Professionally Personal

Public Goods Too Important to Overlook

Baker-Wurgler sentiment index: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jwurgler/data/SENTIMENT.xlsx
(updated through 2023-12; I assisted extending this database)

JPE Special Edition: "The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics" [JPE LINK]
Finance conferences: See Appendix A of this paper [SSRN]
Nobel Laureates Give Advice to Young Economists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9X0ogs0Ihc&list=WL&index=19
How is Econometrics Changing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW_b2BTvoz4&list=WL&index=18

Discussions

Presented below is a chronological list of papers for which I served as a discussant at various conferences. My roles as a discussant cover a range of topics, including asset pricing, political economy, market sentiment, and macroeconomics.

1. Does Partisanship Affect Mutual Fund Information Processing? Evidence from Textual Analysis on Earnings Calls
(Wanyi Wang, UC Irvine)
Paper Category: Political Economy, Textual Analysis (discussed in FMA 2023)

2. A Century of Asset Allocation Crash Risk
(Mikhail Samonov, Two Centuries Investments; Nonna Sorokina, Penn State Univ) 

Paper Category: Portfolio Optimization (discussed in FMA 2023)

3. The Stock Market's Twilight Zone: How Overnight Sentiment Affects Opening Returns
(Vitali Alexeev, U of Tech Sydney; Baoqing Gan, U of Tech Sydney; Danny Yeung, U of Tech Sydney)
Paper Category: Market sentiment (discussed in FMA Asia/Pacific 2024)

4. Risk Premia, Subjective Beliefs, and Forward Guidance
(Anna Cieslak, Duke Fuqua; Paymon Khorrami, Duke Fuqua)
Paper Category: Monetary Policy, Asset Pricing (discussed in EFA 2024)

5. Dynamic Anchors
(Sandra Betton, Concordia; Nabil El Mesimani, Saint Mary's)
Paper Category: Market sentiment, Asset Pricing (discussed in FMA 2024)

6. Common Firm-level Investor Fears: Evidence from Equity Options
Mykola Babiak (Lancaster), Jozef Barunik (Charles U, Czech Academy of Sciences), Mattia Bevilacqua (Liverpool), Michael Ellington (Liverpool)
Paper Category: Behavioral Finance, Asset Pricing (discussed in FMA 2024)

7. Congressional Herding
(Richard Herron, Northeastern; Marius Popescu, Northeastern; Zhaojin Xu, U Mass Dartmouth)
Paper Category: Asset Pricing, Political Economy (discussed in SFA 2024)

8. Dissecting the Value Premium
(Linda H. Chen, Idaho; Wei Huang, Minnesota Duluth; George J. Jiang, Washington State)
Paper Category: Asset Pricing, Factor Investing (discussed in SFA 2024)

9. The Size Premium in a Granular Economy
(Logan Emery, Erasmus U Rotterdam; Joren Koeter, Erasmus U rotterdam)
Paper Category: Asset Pricing, Factor Investing (discussed in SFA 2024)

10. Capital Flows, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth
(Paul R. Bergin, UC Davis; Woo Jin Choi, U of Seoul; Ju H. Pyun, Korea U Business School)
Paper Category: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth (discussed in Korea University Economics Workshop 2025)

11. Time-Varying Anomaly Premia: Stable Fact or Disappearing Act?
(Niels Strange Gronborg, Aarhus; Chun-Wei (Kingway) Lin, Virginia Tech; Bradley S. Paye, Virgnia Tech; Allan Timmermann, UCSD)
Paper Category: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth (discussed in FMA European 2025)

12. Cultural Hypocrisy and REgulatory Betrayal: A Catalyst for Harsher Penalties
(Balbinder Singh Gill, Stevens Inst of Tech; Kose John, NYU)
Paper Category: Corporate Governance, Regulation (discussed in FMA 2025)

13. Retail Access to Private Markets
(Benjamin C. Bates, Harvard Law School)
Paper Category: Private Equity, Law and Economics (discussed in CELS 2025)

Personally Personal

Axioms to live by

Here I list some axioms to guide one's life - I garnered them while reading books or doing random google searches. I did my best to indicate sources, but bullets without such are probably google searches. 

Click here to see them (notion page)