Research
My research studies how corporate debt contracts, firm heterogeneity, and asset composition shape refinancing, default, investment, and the propagation of aggregate shocks.
Job Market Paper · Updated draft coming soon
Debt Callability and Firm Dynamics
Working Paper · Draft coming soon
Seniority Structure in the Macroeconomy
Long-term borrowing can dilute incumbent creditors. We combine Capital IQ debt-rank data with a dynamic model to study whether repayment priority reallocates dilution exposure and changes investment, default, and business-cycle propagation.
Working Paper · Draft coming soon
Financial Frictions, Intangible Capital, and the Business Cycle
I study how real downturns and credit tightening change the composition of firm investment, emphasizing the interaction between intangible exposure and firms’ funding capacity.
Working Paper · Draft coming soon
Business Cycles, Competition, and Stock Returns
Studies how product-market competition shapes firms’ exposure to aggregate risk and the cross-section of stock returns over the business cycle.
Work in Progress
Monetary Policy Narratives and House Price Expectations
Examines how central-bank communication, media coverage, and social-media narratives shape expectations about housing-market conditions.
Inside the Non-Compete Agreements Damages in the U.S.
Uses public comments and online discussion to study the labor-market and welfare consequences associated with non-compete agreements.
Earlier Work
- Twin Deficits: Empirical Investigation for Togo. 61st World Statistics Congress Proceedings, 2017.
- Réformer l’enseignement technique et la formation professionnelle pour l’employabilité des jeunes en Afrique. Policy paper, 2018.