Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2011 | Ph.D. Finance | University of Texas at Austin |
| 2000 | B.A. Economics | Rice University |
Employment
| 2023–present | Associate Professor of Finance | Terry College of Business, University of Georgia |
| 2019–2023 | Assistant Professor of Finance | Terry College of Business, University of Georgia |
| 2017–2019 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan |
| 2011–2019 | Assistant Professor of Finance | Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas |
Before academia
| 2000–2002 | Business Analyst | McKinsey and Company, Houston, TX |
| 2004–2005 | Director of Sales and Marketing | R7 Solutions, Houston, TX |
Publications
- 2026JFE
Past is Prologue: Inference from the Cross Section of Returns Around an Event
- 2025RFS
Societal Inequality and Bank Deposit Dynamics: Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank
- 2025JBF
Racial Violence, Political Representation, and the Threat to Banks as Open Access Institutions
- 2022JFE
Count (and Count-Like) Data in Finance
- 2021RFS
Private Equity Buyouts and Workplace Safety
- 2020JF
Measuring Mutual Fund Flow Pressure as Shock to Stock Returns
- 2016JF
Financing Constraints and Workplace Safety
- 2015RFS
The Costs of Closing Failed Banks: A Structural Estimation of Regulatory Incentives
- 2022JSDP
Freedman's Savings and Trust Bank Passbook and Dividend Repayment Records
Working papers
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The Contracts Not Written: Measuring Covenant Tightness with LLM-Generated Synthetic Counterfactuals
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Complexity, Standardization, and the Design of Loan Agreements
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The Decline of U.S. Workplace Injuries, Improvements in Safety, and Changes in Occupational Composition
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Can a Platform-Pays Mechanism Reduce Credit Ratings Bias?
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Complementarity in Bond Design
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Information, Competition, and Investment Sensitivity to Peer Stock Prices
Professional activity
Referee
Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics; Review of Financial Studies; Journal of Monetary Economics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Management Science; Journal of Banking and Finance
Conference discussions
2012 SFS Cavalcade; 2013 SFS Cavalcade; 2013 Lone Star Finance Conference; 2014 FMA Meetings (2); 2017 NFA Meetings (2); 2017 UTD Spring Finance Conference; 2018 UT Alumni Conference; 2018 RCFS Annual Conference; 2018 WFA Meetings; 2018 NFA Meetings; 2019 AEA Meetings; 2019 MFA Meetings; 2019 FIRS Conference; 2019 Australia Finance and Banking Conference; 2020 SFS Cavalcade; 2021 AFA Meetings; 2022 CICF; 2023 South Carolina FIFA Conference; 2024 MFA Meetings; 2025 AFA Meetings; 2025 Society of Labor Economists Annual Meetings; 2025 CFEA
Invited seminars
| 2012 | University of Rochester |
| 2015 | University of Texas at San Antonio |
| 2015 | Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| 2016 | University of Oklahoma |
| 2016 | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| 2016 | Vanderbilt University |
| 2020 | University of Alabama |
| 2021 | Deakin University |
| 2021 | National University of Singapore |
| 2022 | Clemson University |
| 2022 | University of Colorado |
| 2023 | Auburn University |
| 2024 | Virginia Tech |
| 2025 | City University of Hong Kong |
Teaching
| Course | Level | Institution | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derivative Security Markets | Undergraduate | University of Georgia | Spring 2024 to present |
| Managerial Finance | Professional MBA | University of Georgia | Spring 2020 to present |
| Financial Management | Undergraduate | University of Michigan | 2017 to 2019 |
| Financial Management | MBA | University of Texas at Dallas | 2012 to 2017 |
| Topics in Empirical Corporate Finance | PhD | University of Texas at Dallas | 2014 to 2015 |
| Topics in Theoretical Corporate Finance | PhD | University of Texas at Dallas | 2013 |
Additional
Dual citizen, United States and United Kingdom. Erdős number 5.