Toy Models, Real Insights

My training as a game theorist shapes how I teach. I take models from leading finance journals and pare them down to their essential logic — toy versions that capture the economic insight without the technical machinery. The result is that undergraduates engage with ideas usually confined to PhD seminars, and they do so with genuine rigor rather than a watered-down substitute.

Games for the AI Era

In my recent courses, I have started designing classroom "games" that develop two skills students increasingly need: critically evaluating and verifying AI-generated answers, and asking AI better questions. If you are interested in these teaching designs, I would be happy to talk — please feel free to schedule a Zoom meeting with me.

Study Abroad: International Finance in the Field

My teaching also extends beyond the classroom. I designed and led a study abroad program in London built around direct engagement with the financial world: students visited Amazon, HSBC, AstraZeneca, and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), preparing cases in advance and presenting their analysis to the professionals they met. The goal was structured learning, not sightseeing — every visit came with academic work attached.