RESEARCH

PUBLICATION

(with Jeffrey Cross) Focal Points for Giving [Forthcoming - Journal of Economic Psychology]

Draft, Appendix (2023, Dec).

Previously titled, "Paying for Integers"

Presentations: Saint Louis University Sinquefield Center (SCAER) Research Workshop 2021, UC Santa Barbara Applied Workshop 2021

WORKING PAPERS

Unemployment Insurance Monthly Benefits, Pay Frequency, and Claimants' Job Search Behavior  [preparing for submission]

Draft (2023, Oct). 

Previously titles, "The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Pay Frequency on UI Claimants’ Job Search Behaviors", "Pay Frequency Matters: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance"

Presentations: Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 2024 (scheduled), Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis 2024 Annual Conference (scheduled), Saint Louis University Sinquefield Center (SCAER) Research Workshop 2022, National Tax Association Annual Meeting 2021, Peking University NSD 2021, UC Santa Barbara Applied Workshop 2020

(with Hakan Özyılmaz) The Debt Payment Puzzle:  An Experimental Investigation [preparing for submission]

Draft (2023, Oct). 

Presentations: American Finance Association Poster Session 2023,  Financial Management Association 2022, Saint Louis University 2022, Society of Experimental Finance 2021*, Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 2021*, Economic Science Association (ESA) JMC Series 2020*, Southwest Experimental and Behavioral Economics Workshop (SWEBE) 2019*, Washington University St. Louis EGSC 2019*, Economic Science Association (ESA) North America 2019, UC Santa Barbara Experimental Economics Workshop 2019

(with Hakan Özyılmaz) Restoring Rational Choice in Repayments [under review]

Draft (2024, Feb). 

Presentations: Boulder Summer Conference in Consumer Financial Decision Making 2024 (scheduled), 12th FDIC Consumer Research Symposium Poster Session 2024, National Tax Association Annual Meeting 2023, the 79th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance 2023, Society of Experimental Finance 2022*, Economic Science Association North America 2022

(with Jeffrey Cross) Tip Suggestions and Service Efficiency [under review]

Draft (2023, Oct). 

Presentations: Saint Louis University Sinquefield Center (SCAER) Research Workshop 2022, Hamilton College 2022*

(with Mike Farrell, Dermot Murphy, and Marc Painter) The Complexity Yield Puzzle: A Textual Analysis of Municipal Bond Disclosures [preparing for submission]

 Draft (2023, Nov).

Presentations: Midwest Finance Association 2024 (scheduled)*, Hawai’i Accounting Research Conference 2024*, University of Nevada Reno 2023*, University of Illinois Chicago 2023*, the Brookings Municipal Finance Conference 2023*, Oklahoma State University 2023*, Dayton Summer Finance Workshop 2022*, Queens College of CUNY 2022*, Southern Illinois University*, the Virtual Municipal Finance Conference*

(with Will Gerken, Steve Irlbeck, and Marc Painter) Watching the Watchdogs: Tracking SEC Inquiries using Geolocation Data [preliminary draft available]

Presentations: INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023*, University of New Hampshire 2023*

SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS

(with Yulia Merkoulova, Hakan Özyılmaz, and Chris Veld) Stock Return Ignorance: Information Frictions or Mental Gaps?

Intra-Monthly Time-Use Patterns: Evidence from Unemployed Workers in New Jersey

* presentation by co-author

TEACHING

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor [Maryville University of St. Louis]:

Econ 203, Principles of Economics 

Teaching Assistant [UC Santa Barbara]:

ECON 1. Principles of Economics-Micro

ECON 2. Principles of Economics-Macro

ECON 10A. Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I

ECON 100B. Intermediate Microeconomic Theory II

ECON 101. Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

Recorded Sections (Spring 2021): link

ECON 134A. Financial Management 

ECON 134C. Behavioral Finance 

Exam Review (Winter 2019): slides, present-bias exercise

ECON 152. Personnel Economics

PSTAT 109. Statistics for Economics