Biography

I teach classes on financial institutions and markets and conduct research related to corporate finance and capital markets. I am interested in the design of bank loans, nonprice terms of corporate credit agreements, and leveraged financial markets. 

I earned a Ph.D. in applied economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Swarthmore College. Before joining Drexel, I was on the faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C.

I currently serve on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial Services Research, and the Journal of Risk and Insurance.

In 2019, I testified to the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services about the risk of leveraged lending. My testimony is available here, and a video of the proceedings is available here.