Welcome!  I am  a Ph.D. candidate in Finance at the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business.  My research interests include small business financing, market concentration and regulation, and labor economics.  

I will be on the 2025/2026 academic market. My job market paper studies subsidized lending allocation and provides policy recommendations to improve the efficiency of such lending programs.

I can be reached at eric.vance@mccombs.utexas.edu and you can find my CV here.