CV

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Academic Employment

• Visiting Research Scholar - Federal Reserve Board (2022 - today)
• Assistant Professor of Finance - American University, Kogod School of Business (2017 - today)

Education

• Ph.D. in Finance, Rice University - Jones School of Business (2012-2017)
• Visiting Finance Ph.D. student, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business (2015-2016)
• M.A. in Business Administration, Rice University - Jones School of Business (2017)
• M.A. in Economics, Duke University (2011)
• B.A. in Financial Management, University of Piraeus (2008)

Published Research

• Local Economic Spillover Effects of Stock Market Listings (with A. Butler and L. Fauver)
  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2019)
  • Best Paper in Corporate Finance (Midwest Finance Association)
  • Best Paper in Investments (Eastern Finance Association)
• Tough Love: The Effects of Debt Contract Design on Firm Performance
  • Review of Corporate Finance Studies (2020)
  • RCFS Rising Scholar Award
• Agglomeration, Knowledge Spillovers, and Corporate Investment (with W. Grieser, G. Maturana, and S. Truffa)
  • Journal of Corporate Finance (2022)
• Determinants of Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Foreclosure Moratorium (with N. Artavanis)
  • Journal of Financial Intermediation (2023)
• The Role of Networks in Loan Syndicate Markets (with J. Harris, M. Zekhnini, and C. Brunetti)
  • Management Science (2026)
  • Semifinalist for best paper award in Financial Institutions at the 2019 Financial Management Association
• The Epidemiology of Financial Constraints and Corporate Investment (with W. Grieser and M. Zekhnini)
  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2026)
  • Best paper award at the 2022 Southern Finance Association

Working Papers

• Comparing Capital Allocation Efficiency in Public and Private Equity Markets (with A. Sanati)
  • Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
• Till Debt Do Us Part? The Effects of Debt Relief on Household Stability (with A. Butler, Y. Telez, and B. Xu)
• Does Banking Consolidation Harm Households? (with C. Brunetti and J. Harris)
• Is Simpler Always Better? Accounting Reporting Complexity and Bank Loans Contracting (with S. (Mark) Ma)
• Creditor Rights and Debt Structure in the Zone of Insolvency

Work In Progress

• AI-Augmented Strategic Asset Allocation Using Macro-Financial Narratives (with A. Sanati)
• The Impact of Data Processing and AI Adoption on Firms' Productivity and Financing (with A. Sanati)
• Differences in Differences with Spillovers (with W. Grieser, J. LeSage, and M. Zekhnini)

Teaching

Professional Activities

Conference Participation (* presentation by co-authors)

• 2026: Kroner & Koeningsberger Center for Financial Research
• 2025: Columbia Private Equity Research Conference*, SEC*, FDIC, European Finance Association
• 2024: SFS Calvacade, Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS)*, World Bank*, IMF*, Federal Reserve Board, Eastern Finance Association*, NBER SI*, Northern Finance Association, University of Tennessee
• 2023: Virginia Tech, Bank of Canada, American University, SFA
• 2022: MFA, Georgetown University, Western Finance Association (WFA), Finance Organizations and Markets*, University of Maryland*, Southern Finance Association (SFA)*, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA)
• 2021: Federal Reserve Board, DC Juniors Finance Conference
• 2020: Chicago Financial Institutions Conference (cancelled)
• 2019: American Economic Association (AEA), FMA*, Reserve Bank of India
• 2018: American Real Estate Society, CELS*, European Finance Association, Atlanta FRB Real Estate conference
• 2017: Midwest Finance Association (MFA), CEPR European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets*, FMA*, European Financial Management Association* (EFMA), Financial Management Association-Europe* (FMA Europe), Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), FRB of Atlanta and Georgia State - Real Estate Finance Conference*
• 2016: Kentucky Finance Conference*, Financial Management Association (FMA)

Referee for peer-reviewed Journals:

Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Real Estate Economics, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, The Financial Review, European Economic Review, The Journal of Financial Research, National Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation

Scholarships, Honors, and Awards

• Rising Scholar Award, SFS, Review of Corporate Finance Studies (2021)
• Kogod, Graduate Professor of the Year (2025)
• Kogod, Outstanding Teaching Award (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024)
• Rice University Doctoral Fellowship (2012-2017)
• American Finance Association (AFA), Doctoral Travel Award (Jan 2016)
• Duke Economics Award for Leadership and Academic Excellence (May 2011)
• Gerondelis and Karelias Foundation Scholarship (2010-2011)
• Fulbright Scholarship (2009-2010)