Research

Grateful to the St. Lawrence University economics department for the invitation to present "Beyond Patent Ownership: Learning About Technological Usefulness." Thanks to the faculty for the engaging discussion and warm hospitality!

Great news! "Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints" has been accepted to the Joint BIS, BoE, ECB, IMF, and JIE Spillover Conference at the IMF in Washington D.C. this April.

Looking forward to presenting "Beyond Patent Ownership: Learning About Technological Usefulness" at the 5th Frontiers of Factor Investing Conference at Lancaster University this April.

Excited that "Who Carries?" has been accepted for presentation at the 2026 MFA Annual Meeting in Chicago this March. With over 1,000 submissions, it's an honor to be part of such a strong program!

Honored to receive the Best Paper Award at the Global AI Finance Research Conference for "Beyond Patent Ownership." Many thanks to Roy Song, Alan Kwan, and Jimmy Oh for organizing a fantastic conference, and to Daniel Rabetti for an insightful discussion of our paper.

Huge thanks to Xiaoyang Li from Hong Kong Polytechnic University for an outstanding discussion of "Beyond Patent Ownership" at the Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference.

Great to meet Jiangdong Hu from UC Irvine and hear his excellent discussion of "Beyond Patent Ownership" at the Australasian Finance and Banking Conference.

It was wonderful presenting "Beyond Patent Ownership: Learning About Technological Usefulness" at Universidad de Montevideo. Thanks to the economics faculty for their warm welcome and helpful comments!

Great news! "Who Carries?" received a revise and resubmit at Review of Asset Pricing Studies. Thanks to the editor and referees for their very constructive feedback!

Thrilled to be presenting "Beyond Patent Ownership: Learning About Technological Usefulness" at the Global AI Finance Research Conference in Hong Kong this December. Great chance to learn from experts in the AI finance community!

Huge thanks to Dave Rapach for discussing my co-authored paper "Who Carries?" at the FMA Annual Meeting in Vancouver. Great questions and comments from Dongchen Zou and Edouard Mattille, wonderful to meet and learn from so many great economists!

The 2025 Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference has accepted my co-authored paper "Beyond Patent Ownership: Learning About Technological Usefulness." Looking forward to discussing our findings at the conference this December.

The 38th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in Sydney has accepted my co-authored paper "Beyond Patent Ownership: Learning About Technological Usefulness." Can't wait to present this upside down! 🙃

New dataset! Explore and download our firm-level technology dataset at TechText.org (in beta), from my co-authored paper "Beyond Patent Ownership: Learning About Technological Usefulness," joint with Jesus Gorrin

Great to present "Who Carries?" in the Exchange Rate and Financial Flows session at the Econometric Society World Congress in Seoul, alongside fantastic papers by Annie Lee, Inhwan So, Akihiko Ikeda, and Peter Hördahl.

Great asset pricing session with Florent Rouxelin and Konstantinos Tolikas, it was a pleasure presenting "Who Carries?" at the World Finance Conference in Malta.

The FMA Annual Conference accepted my co-authored paper "Who Carries?" for presentation in Vancouver. A great conference in a lovely location!

Thanks to Haonan Zhou for a great discussion of my co-authored paper "Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints" at the WFA Conference in Snowbird year!

New paper! "Beyond Patent Ownership: Learning About Technological Usefulness" now on SSRN. We reveal the core technologies of non-patenting firms for the first time using machine learning.

Huge thanks to Pierre De Leo for his insightful discussion of my co-authored paper "Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints" at SFS Cavalcade NA this year. Grateful to be included in such a strong program!

The International Conference on Empirical Economics hosted by Penn State accepted my co-authored paper "Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints" for a virtual presentation on Zoom, 2 August!

The Econometric Society World Congress accepted my co-authored paper "Who Carries?", looking forward to presenting in Seoul!

Excited that our paper "Who Carries?" was accepted to the World Finance Conference in Malta—looking forward to connecting with researchers in international finance.

Great to meet the University of Exeter Macro Group and present my paper, "The Technological Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations and Systematic Risk." Thank you for the invitation and the insightful comments!

New paper! "Who Carries?" now on SSRN. We bridge a finance literature on carry trade with an international macro literature on portfolio home bias in this work.

WFA Conference accepted my co-authored paper "Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints," great news!

SFS Cavalcade NA Conference accepted my co-authored paper "Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints."

European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society accepted my co-authored paper "Who Carries?." Just finished a major revision, looking forward to presenting in Palma!

New paper! "Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints now on SSRN." Sterilized interventions work, but crowd out private intermediation.

CEBRA Annual Meeting accepted my co-authored paper "Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints," very excited to be back in Frankfurt!