Education
Ph.D. Finance, Baruch College, CUNY, 2015
M.B.A. Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY, 2012
M.A. International Political Economy and Development, Fordham University, 2008
B.A. English, Jagiellonian University, Poland, 2002
Awards
Midwest Finance Association Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2015
John A. Elliott Teaching Award, Baruch College, 2013
Writing Fellowship, Baruch College Schwartz Institute of Communication, 2013 - 2014
Conference Presentation Grant for PhD Students, Baruch College, Jun 2012, Mar 2014, Apr 2014
Research Assistantship, Baruch College, 2009-2010
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Baruch College, Fall 2009 to present
Publications
"European Union Enlargement and Corporate Valuations" Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Volume 54 (2), pp. 430-449, 2018.
"Corporate Bonds and Product Market Competition" Journal of Financial Research, 43(3), pp. 615-647, 2020.
"Pleasing the Crowd: The Determinants of Securities Crowdfunding Success" (with Elena Smirnova, Yu Lei & Frank Sanacory), Review of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 165-183, 2021.
"World Dividends and Tax Shocks" (with Richard Herron), Global Finance Journal, Vol. 47, 2021.
"Strategic Announcement Sequencing: Earnings Announcements and M&A Announcements" (with Huajing Hu and Chih-Huei Su), Journal of Behavioral Finance, 23:2, pp. 132-149, 2022.
"Female Entrepreneurs Managing from Home" (with Sheyi Oladipo and Hyoung Suk Shim), Accepted, Small Business Economics.
"Do Political Connections Pay? Evidence from India" (with Kousik Ganguly and Ajay Kumar Mishra), Accepted, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.
"Political Culture and Corporate Cash Holdings" (with Chih-Huei Banks and Huajing Hu), Accepted, Journal of Economics and Finance.
Selected Conference and Seminar Presentations
''Leaving the Crowd: Corporations' Relocation and Product Market Competition'' with Huajing Hu and Debby Su
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Oct 2021
''Female Entrepreneurs Managing from Home'' with Sheyi Oladipo and Hyong Suk Shim
AEA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Jan 2020
NYSEA Conference, Rochester NY, October 2019
ASSA IAFFE, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Jun 2019
''Strategic Announcement Sequencing - Earnings Announcements and M&A Announcements'' with Huajing Hu and Debby Su
Southwestern Finance Conference, Houston, TX Apr 2019
Southern Finance Conference, Asheville, NC, Nov 2018
Eastern Finance Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Apr 2018
Baruch College Brown Bag Seminar Series, Mar 2018
NYSEA Conference, Farmingdale, NY Oct 2017
"European Union Enlargement and Corporate Valuations''
Eastern Finance Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Apr 2014
Southwestern Finance Conference, Dallas, TX, Mar 2014
Multinational Finance Conference, Krakow, Poland, Jun 2012
Baruch College Ph.D. Seminar Series, May 2011
"Product Market Threats and the Cost of Public Debt''
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, Oct 2015
Eastern Finance Conference, New Orleans, LA, Apr 2015
Baruch College Ph.D. Student Conference, May 2014
"Industry Contagion in Bond Yield Spreads''
NYSEA Conference, Rochester, NY Oct 2018
Eastern Finance Conference, New Orleans, LA, Apr 2015
"Information Transfer and Leverage"
Eastern Finance Conference, Miami, FL Apr 2019
NYSEA Conference, Farmingdale, NY Oct 2016
Selected Discussions
Eastern Finance Conference, Miami, FL, Apr 2019
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, Oct 2015
Eastern Finance Conference, New Orleans, LA, Apr 2015
Eastern Finance Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Apr 2014
South-Western Finance Conference, Dallas, TX, Mar 2014
Multinational Finance Conference, Krakow 2012, Poland, Jun 2012
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, Oct 2010
Industry Experience
Analyst, Alliance Bernstein L.P., Global Analytics, 2007 - 2008
Analyst, State Street Bank, Investment Analytics 2007
Intern, Madison Portfolio Consultants 2006
