Hi! I am an assistant professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. I obtained my PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 2021. My research interests include monetary economics, macroeconomics, and digital payments.
Hi! I am an assistant professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. I obtained my PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 2021. My research interests include monetary economics, macroeconomics, and digital payments.
"Payment Data, Information Disclosure, and Privacy", with Kee-Youn Kang
We study the informational value of payment data, optimal disclosure of aggregate-demand information, consumers' privacy concerns, and the implications for policy and welfare.
"Interest Rates, Moneyness, and the Fisher Equation", with Lucas Herrenbrueck
We study monetary policy and asset pricing when a safe asset can be easily traded or pledged as collateral to obtain money, or even for goods and services directly.
"Payments and the Provision of Privacy by Digital Platforms", with Pedro Gomis-Porqueras
We study how payments -- which are essential to trade between consumers and producers and therefore digital platforms' data monetization -- affect consumer privacy.
"Signaling in Competitive Search Equilibrium: Illiquidity vs. Partial Retention"
This paper studies illiquidity and partial retention of assets as signals of asset quality in markets with private information.
"Asymmetric Information, Asset Markets, and the Medium of Exchange", with Athanasios Geromichalos and Lucas Herrenbrueck
Economic Theory, 2025 (accepted version)
"Oligopoly Banking, Risky Investment, and Monetary Policy", with Lukas Altermatt
European Economic Review 164, 2024 (accepted version)
"Money Laundering and the Privacy Design of Central Bank Digital Currency"
Review of Economic Dynamics 51, 2023 (accepted version)
"Liquidity and Private Information in Asset Markets: To Signal or not to Signal"
Journal of Economic Theory 190, 2020 (accepted version)
"Crypto 'Money': Means of Payment or Object of Speculation?", with Lucas Herrenbrueck
"Computational Liquidity Economics", with Lucas Herrenbrueck
"Tax Compliance, Payment Choice, and Central Bank Digital Currency"
Developed into "Money Laundering and the Privacy Design of Central Bank Digital Currency".
"Trading Motives in Asset Markets"
Developed into "Liquidity and Private Information in Asset Markets: To Signal or not to Signal" and "Signaling in Competitive Search Equilibrium: Illiquidity vs. Partial Retention".
Instructor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Intermediate Macroeconomics I: Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2025, Fall 2025
Macroeconomics I (graduate): Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025
Monetary Economics: Winter 2024