I am a job market candidate from Columbia University. My fields of specialization are Industrial Organization and Finance. Additionally, I received rigorous training in econometrics and statistics. In my research, I utilize empirical methods to explore, for example, how government policies can affect competition and economic outcomes.
Looking at Brazilian bank branch-level data, I investigate the impact of the government policy implemented in March 2012, aimed at increasing credit supply through public banks, on competition in the banking sector and economic activity. I find that the policy successfully increased overall credit supply, as increased lending of public banks did not significantly offset private lending. On the other hand, there is no evidence of significant client-switching between private and public banks. However, the effects of the policy on economic activity were limited and even negligible. I conduct a series of robustness checks to further explore this puzzling result. I find evidence suggesting that increased lending led to significant increases in deposits, indicating that borrowers leveraged easily accessible credit to take loans and save funds for future use.
Television Introduction and Agricultural Production
I assess the effects that improved information has on agricultural activity in the U.S. I use the introduction of television as proxy for improved information and argue that this happens through the channel of clearer communication of weather information. Using the difference-in-difference method, I estimate a significant positive effect of television introduction on crop yields.
Columbia University
Summer 2023 – ECON S4251: Industrial Organization (Undergraduate), Instructor
Fall 2022 – ECON UN3025: Financial Economics (Undergraduate), TA for Professor Tamrat Gashaw
Summer 2022 – ECON S4251: Industrial Organization (Undergraduate), Instructor
Summer 2021 – ECON S4415: Game Theory (Undergraduate), Instructor
Spring 2021 – ECON GU4280: Corporate Finance (Undergraduate), TA for Professor Ethan Namvar
Fall 2020 – ECON GU4280: Corporate Finance (Undergraduate), TA for Professor Tri Vi Dang
Summer 2020 – ECON S4370: Political Economy (Undergraduate), Instructor
Spring 2020 – ECON GR6212: Microeconomic Analysis II (Graduate), TA for Professors Navin Kartik and Bentley MacLeod
Fall 2019 – ECON GU4280: Corporate Finance (Undergraduate), TA for Professor Tri Vi Dang
Summer 2019 – ECON S4465: Public Economics (Undergraduate), Instructor
Spring 2019 – ECON GU4280: Corporate Finance (Undergraduate), TA for Professor Tri Vi Dang
Fall 2018 – ECON GU4280: Corporate Finance (Undergraduate), TA for Professor Tri Vi Dang
Spring 2018 – ECON UN3025: Financial Economics (Undergraduate), TA for Professor Jose Cao-Alvira
Fall 2017 – ECON UN3025: Financial Economics (Undergraduate), TA for Professor Gernot Mueller
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), TU Wien
Spring 2016 – Econometrics I (Graduate), TA for Professor Justinas Pelenis
