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Education
PhD., University of Wisconsin-Madison Joint Degree in Economics & Finance
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Economics
M.A., University of Toronto, Economics
B.A. McGill University, Honours Economics & Mathematics Major
2022
2015
2012
2011
Professional Experience
University of Toronto, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor
Bank of Canada, Visiting Researcher
Bank of Canada, Funds Management and Banking Dept., Economist
Bank of Canada, Funds Management and Banking Dept., Research Assistant (full-time)
2022 – present
2018 – 2020
2013 – 2014 / 2015 – 2016
2012
Publications & Under Review
“Improving Overnight Loan Identification in Payments Systems,” 2016, Journal of Money,
Credit and Banking, 48(2-3), pp. 549-564.
“ Public Listing Choice with Persistent Hidden Information ” (co-author: Francesco Celentano)
Accepted, Review of Economic Studies
Working Papers & Selected Works In Progress
“ Innovation and Firm Dynamics with Patent Wars ” (Job market paper)
“ Stockpiling Liquidity to Acquire Innovation ” (co-author: Anubha Agarwal)
“ Buy vs Rent Heuristic ” (co-authors: Briana Chang, Hyson-Soo Choi, Harrison Hong, Jeffrey Kubick)
“ Intraday Trade Dynamics in Short-Term Funding Markets” (co-author: Francisco Rivadeneyra)
Honours & Awards
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $71,986 — 2024
Best Paper Award, Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance — 2023
Financial Management Association, Best Paper Semi-Finalist — 2023
Donald D. Hester Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) — 2021
Stephen Hawk Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (Wisconsin School of Business) — 2020
1st Place, Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award — 2019
University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Travel Award — 2019
Wisconsin School of Business, Naming Fund Scholarship — 2016-2021
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Doctoral Fellowship — 2014-2015
McGill University, Dean’s Honour List — 2010
External Seminars & Conferences
* – summer school attendee, (d) – discussant
Barcelona Summer Forum (s); Purdue – Liquidity in Macro (s);
Rotman Finance; Carleton University; Wisconsin Finance 125th Ann. Conference (s)
University of British Columbia; University of Waterloo; U of T Junior Financial Econ Conference 2025; Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments and Finance; Banff Innovation, Productivity & Growth Conference; Spring Midwest Macroeconomics; Southern Ontario Macro Workshop; University of North Carolina; Society for Financial Studies Cavalcade North America (d), Northern Finance Association (d)
2026
2024/2025
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting; Spring Midwest Macroeconomics Conference; North American Econometric Society Summer Meeting; Society of Economic Dynamics Meetings; Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting
2023
Western University, Queens University, University of Toronto, Economics; Rotman School of Management, Finance; Fox School of Business, Finance; Bank of Canada; Desaultes School of Management (cancelled)
2022
Bank of Canada ; Minnesota-Wisconsin International / Macro Workshop x 2 (spring / fall)
2021
University of Basel (virtual)
2020
Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Competition, Minnesota-Wisconsin International/Macro Workshop, USC Marshall PhD Conference in Finance, Wharton Finance Theory Group Summer School*, (University of Michigan, Ross) Mitsui Center Structural Corporate Finance Summer School*, Mini Search and Matching Conference, Wisconsin School of Business
2019
Bank of Canada, Yale Fall Doctoral Finance Conference, Princeton Initiative: Money, Macro and Finance (summer school)*
2018
Econometric Society, European Summer Meeting, Lisbon
2017
Midwest Macroeconomics Workshop, Summer Meeting; Bank of Canada Fellowship Exchange; Canadian Economics Association Conference
2016
Discussions
- “Intangible Capital Around the world” by Federico Belo, Yu Li, Juliane Salomao & Maria Ana Vitorino
Northern Finance Association Annual Conference, 2024 - “The Efficiency of Patent Litigation” by Samuel Antill, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian, & Toni M. Whited 2024 SFS Cavalcade North America, 2024
- “DeFi Leveraged Trading: Inequitable Costs of Decentralization” by Peter Mueller
Canadian Economics Association Annual Meetings, 2024 - “Innovation-driven growth in a multi-country world,” by Till Gross & Paul Klein
Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group, 2023 - “Exporting and Investment Under Credit Constraints,” by Huynh, Petrunia, Rodrigue, & Steingress. Canadian Economics Association Annual Meetings, 2023
Referee and Other Service
Refereeing:
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics; Canadian Journal of Economics; Economic Theory; Journal of Economic Growth; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; International Journal of Central Banking; Macroeconomic Dynamics; Quantitative Finance; Review of Economic Dynamics; Real Estate Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of Financial Studies
Other service
University of Toronto, Macro Seminar Organizer, 2023 – 2024
University of Toronto, Recruiting Committee, 2022 – 2023
University of Toronto, Masters of Financial Economics Admissions Committee, 2022 – present
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Organizer / Co-Founder of the Finance, Macro and International (FMI) seminar series, Fall 2019
Wisconsin School of Business, Organizer of the WSB PhD Finance Seminar Series (FRG), Spring 2019
Teaching
University of Toronto (St George), ECO2101 PhD Macroeconomics II — Spring 2023 – present
University of Toronto (Mississauga), ECO349 Money, Banking and Financial Markets — 2022-present
Last Updated: April 2025