Research

Working Papers

Personal Financial Distress and Litigious Behavior (sole-authored) (JMP)

• Revise and Resubmit at Review of Financial Studies
• Conferences and Seminars: CEPR European Household Finance (Cyprus)

Insufficient Sleep and Intra-Day Financial Decision-Making (sole-authored)

• Revise and Resubmit at Management Science
• Conferences and Seminars: FIRS (2023), Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (2023), NFA (2023), FMA (2023), Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (2023), SFA (2023), Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (2023), University of South Carolina (2022)
• Awards: FMA Best Paper Award Semifinalist 2023, CFI Best Student Paper Award (DMSB)

Financial Literacy and Financial Crime: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (with John Hackney)

• Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Financial Economics
• Conferences and Seminars: Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (2024)

The Role of Sentiment in One-Click FinTech Borrowing (with Ran Duchin and John Hackney)

• Conferences and Seminars: FIRS (2024), Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (2024), Old Dominion University* (2023), University of Washington Finance PhD Alumni Conference* (2022)

Cybersecurity Risk and Mortgage Lender Selection (with John Hackney)

• Conferences and Seminars: FMA (2022), SFA (2022), University of South Carolina (2022)

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) from the Small Business Perspective: Did the PPP Help Alleviate Financial and Economic Constraints? (with Allen Berger, Jonathan Scott, and Siwen Zhang)

• Conferences and Seminars: SFA (2022), Temple University* (2022)

Publications

Workforce Sleep and Corporate Innovation (with Gianni De Bruyn),

• Research Policy, Volume 54, Issue 3, 2025

Work in Progress

Housing Wealth and Labor Action (sole-authored)

• Awards: Doctoral Fellows Proposal Award (Grant)
• Preliminary results documented

Flexible Work and Household Financial Behavior (with Ran Duchin, John Hackney, and Da Ke)

• Preliminary results documented

Labor Market Sorting, Unions, and Financial Literacy (sole-authored)

• Preliminary results documented