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, 2018 - Issue 2
``Pleasing the Crowd: The Determinants of Securities Crowdfunding Success" (Review of Behavioral Finance, accepted) with E. Smirnova, Y. Lei and F. Sanacory
"World Dividends and Tax Shocks" (with Richard Herron) Forthcoming, Global Finance Journal
"Corporate Bonds and Product Market Competition" Accepted, Journal of Financial Research
​"Strategic Announcement Sequencing: Earnings Announcements and M&A Announcements" (with Huajing Hu and Chih-Huei Su), Accepted, Journal of Behavioral Finance
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Conference and Seminar Presentations
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''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

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