I am an Associate Professor in the finance department of the Wharton School. My research is on macroeconomics with focus on housing and mortgage finance and the role and regulation of financial intermediaries.
"Interest Rate Risk and Cross-Sectional Effects of Micro-Prudential Regulation," with Juliane Begenau and Vadim Elenev (SSRN)
"Asset Pricing with Optimal Under-Diversification," with Vadim Elenev (SSRN)
"Can Monetary Policy Create Fiscal Capacity?," with Vadim Elenev, Patrick Shultz, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (SSRN)
"What can Structural Economic Models Teach us about the Housing Affordability Crisis?," with Boaz Abramson, prepared for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (working paper)
"Printing Away the Mortgages: Fiscal Inflation and the Post-Covid Boom," with William Diamond and German Sanchez Sanchez, accepted at Journal of Financial Economics, working paper
"Mortgage Refinancing, Consumer Spending, and Competition: Evidence from the Home Affordable Refinancing Program," with Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru and Vincent W. Yao, Review of Economic Studies, 2022 SSRN
"Can the Covid Bailouts Save the Economy?," with Vadim Elenev and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Economic Policy, 2022 SSRN
"Credit Cycles with Market Based Household Leverage," with William Diamond, Journal of Financial Economics, 2021 SSRN, Code
"Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System," with Juliane Begenau, Review of Economic Studies, 2021 SSRN, Code
"A Macroeconomic Model with Financially Constrained Producers and Intermediaries," with Vadim Elenev and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Econometrica, 2021,89: 1361-1418 SSRN, Code
"Financial Fragility with SAM?," with Daniel Greenwald and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Journal of Finance, 2021, 76: 651-706 SSRN, Code
“Housing Demand during the Boom: The Role of Expectations and Credit Constraints,” Review of Financial Studies, 30(6), 2017, 1865-1902, working paper pdf
"Phasing out the GSEs," with Vadim Elenev and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 81, 2016, pp. 111-132, SSRN
"The Housing Market(s) of San Diego," with Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider, American Economic Review, Volume 105(4), 2015, pp. 1371-1407, working paper pdf, Code
"Housing assignment with restrictions: theory and evidence from Stanford campus," with Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider, American Economic Review P&P, Volume 104(5), 2014, pp. 67-72, working paper pdf
“Search to own or search to rent? Structural vacancies in the cross section of cities,” with Boaz Abramson, Monika Piazzesi, and Martin Schneider
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