Conor Donohoe

Education

Temple University, College of Liberal Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Expected December 2026

B.A. in Mathematical Economics, GPA: 4.0/4.0

Research Interests

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

Research Papers

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.

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.

Course Papers

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.

Awards and Presentations

Winner, Norman and Ruth Sun Memorial Writing Prize, for Geopolitical Distance and the Sensitivity of Bilateral Capital Flows to Global Risk.
Invited presenter, Temple Undergraduate Research Symposium, March 2026, for The Popularity Effects of Soccer Leagues Remaining Active During COVID Lockdowns.

Research and Analytical Experience

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

June 2026 - September 2026

Incoming Credit Research Intern

Temple University

November 2025 - June 2026

Research Assistant to Professor Olga Timoshenko

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.

Temple University

August 2025 - November 2025

College Fed Challenge, Team Member

Analyzed the effects of AI-related capital expenditure and tariff increases on unemployment and inflation to inform a Federal Reserve policy recommendation.

Teaching Experience

Temple University, Economics Department

January 2026 - May 2026

Economics Department Tutor

Tutored undergraduate students in introductory and intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics.

Research-Relevant Coursework

PhD Econometrics I and II, PhD Macroeconomics I, Stochastic Processes, Introduction to Machine Learning, Real Analysis, Theoretical Linear Algebra, Economics Research Capstone

Technical Skills

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)