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Education

International macrofinance and the transmission of financial shocks to the real economy
Cross-border capital flows and the global financial system as a network
Balance of payments crises and their macroeconomic consequences
The global financial cycle

Geopolitical Distance and the Sensitivity of Bilateral Capital Flows to Global Risk, first draft, March 2026. Combines a theoretical extension of Albuquerque (2003) with bilateral gravity-model and IV evidence to show that geopolitically distant country pairs exhibit lower portfolio investment and substantially weaker sensitivity to VIX shocks.
Winner, Norman and Ruth Sun Memorial Writing Prize, for Geopolitical Distance and the Sensitivity of Bilateral Capital Flows to Global Risk.
The Popularity Effects of Soccer Leagues Remaining Active During COVID Lockdowns, 2025. Uses the Belarusian Premier League’s COVID-era exposure shock as a natural experiment and a dynamic difference-in-differences event-study design to show that the resulting increase in attention was large but not persistent.
Invited to present The Popularity Effects of Soccer Leagues Remaining Active During COVID Lockdowns at Temple’s Undergraduate Research Symposium, March 2026.

No-Arbitrage Linear Pricing, the Riesz Representation Theorem, and the Stochastic Discount Factor, 2026. A course paper in asset pricing and functional analysis that develops a self-contained treatment of one-period pricing in $L^2$ and shows that the abstract Riesz-representation stochastic discount factor coincides with the discounted marginal-utility kernel from a one-period consumer problem. Full draft withheld until course submission is complete.

Incoming Credit Research Intern, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, June 2026 to September 2026.
Research Assistant, Temple University, with Professor Olga Timoshenko, November 2025 to June 2026. Conduct literature review on machine-learning text analysis in economics, filter a corpus of more than 6,000 trade-related news articles using sentence-transformer embeddings, build an automated sentiment-scoring pipeline, and link negotiation-period text data to industry-level trade outcomes from the USITC.
College Fed Challenge, Temple University, August 2025 to November 2025. Analyzed the effects of AI-related capital expenditure and tariff increases on unemployment and inflation to inform a Federal Reserve policy recommendation.

Economics Department Tutor, Temple University, January 2026 to May 2026. Tutor undergraduate students in introductory and intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics.

Programming: Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn), R, SQL, Stata, Excel, JavaScript, HTML
Methods: econometric modeling, fixed effects, dynamic panel data analysis, instrumental variables, event-study design, time series analysis, machine-learning-assisted text analysis
Languages: Spanish (professional working proficiency), Mandarin Chinese (limited working proficiency)