I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management. I received my PhD from the Economics Department at Columbia University.
My research explores topics in real estate, corporate finance, and macro-finance.
I study issues related to the regulation of real estate markets and where firms choose to locate their operations in response to local tax and financing incentives. My work also touches on household finance and climate finance aspects of property investment, including climate-proofing buildings and green home energy adoption.
My research has been featured in national news outlets, including CNBC and Newsweek, and has informed national policy through HUD and SCOTUS briefs.
My CV is here My SSRN page Google Scholar Official Yale page
If you are a Yale undergraduate or graduate student interested in part-time research assistant opportunities, please see application instructions here.
Recent updates:
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Brand new paper, “Do Households Separate Politics from Investment? Evidence from Residential Solar,” co-authored with Aymeric Bellon and Avantika Pal. We find that political preferences rather than expected financial returns generate a large partisan gap in homeowners' decisions to adopt solar technology.
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Brand new paper, “Contaminated Capital: Brownfield Cleanups, Entrepreneurship, and Place-Based Redistribution,” co-authored with Aymeric Bellon and Jason Chen. We show that EPA brownfield cleanup grants turn contaminated land into productive local capital, crowding in private and public investment while increasing firm entry, employment, and nearby property values.
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Revised September 2026 version of “Picking Up the PACE: Loans for Residential Climate-Proofing,” joint with Aymeric Bellon, Francesco Mazzola, and Guosong Xu. We match PACE borrowers to their credit histories to document new facts about how households sort across green home improvement loan options.