Thank you for visiting my personal webpage! I am a Professor of Finance and "Wood Center in Real Estate Distinguished Scholar" at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. I am also the Faculty Director of our real estate program and serve on the Executive Committee of our Wood Center for Real Estate Studies. As such, my teaching and service duties are exclusively devoted to our real estate program.

My research interests are eclectic and span real estate, financial economics, and decision theory. Although my current research focus is primarily on frictions in real estate and other illiquid asset markets, I continue to work and maintain a strong interest in the broad areas of decision science as well as mainstream finance. My research has appeared in leading venues in economics and finance, and I've been fortunate to present it at well over 100 invited seminar series and peer-reviewed conferences. I serve as an associate editor at several respected journals and have lost track of the number of papers I've been asked to review or discuss in professional settings.   

I previously served on the faculty at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and, before that, the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. My PhD in financial economics is from the University of British Columbia, where I also earned a PhD in physics. My B.Sc. in physics was earned with honors from the University of Toronto. Though a dry list of my academic credentials and accomplishments might suggest that I've led a rather sheltered academic existence, I have devoted the better part of the last fifteen years seeking ways in which my research, service, and teaching can have an impact beyond the academy.