About Me
I am an Economist in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. My research interests span the economics of networks, banking and financial stability.
For the 2022/2023 academic year, I am on secondment to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the Division of Financial Stability.
Disclaimer: The views expressed on this website are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Federal Reserve System or its staff.
I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Economics at the European University Institute. Before that, I worked as an economic consultant in the Antitrust and Competition Policy Group at NERA Economic Consulting.
- Email: [email protected]
- CV (May 2023) (PDF)
- Google Scholar (link)
- Orcid (link)
Working Papers
“How Do Banks Respond to Capital Regulation? — The Impact of the Basel III Reforms in the United States” (with Nicholas Fritsch) Working Paper No. 22-11. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Apr 2022. (link) (PDF)
“Intermediation in Networks” Working Paper No 15-18. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Oct 2015. (link) (PDF)
Publications
“Making Friends Meet: Network Formation with Introductions.”. International Journal of Game Theory, May 2023 (link)
“The Impacts of Stricter Merger Legislation on Bank Mergers and Acquisitions: Too-Big-To-Fail and Competition” (with Elena Carletti, Steven Ongena and Giancarlo Spagnolo). Journal of Financial Intermediation 46, Apr 2021, 100859 (link)
“Convergence of Cultural Traits with Time-Varying Self-Confidence in the Panebianco (2014) Model - A Corrigendum” (with Fabrizio Panebianco and Anja Prummer). Journal of Economic Theory 175, May 2018, e3-e13 (link)
“Community Leaders and the Preservation of Cultural Traits” (with Anja Prummer). Journal of Economic Theory 168, March 2017, 143-176 (link)
Federal Reserve Publications
“Two Approaches to Predicting the Path of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is One Better?” (with Ben R. Craig, Tom Phelan and Jared Steinberg). Economic Commentary 2021-10. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Apr 2021. (link)
“Modeling Behavioral Responses to COVID-19” (with Ben R. Craig, Tom Phelan and Jared Steinberg). Economic Commentary 2021-05. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Mar 2021. (link)
“Improving Epidemic Modeling with Networks” (with Ben R. Craig, Tom Phelan and Jared Steinberg). Economic Commentary 2020-23. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Sep 2020. (link)
“Asset Commonality in US Banks and Financial Stability” (with Nicholas Fritsch). Economic Commentary 2019-01. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Jan 2019. (link)
“Merger Control in the Banking Sector”. Economic Commentary 2017-10. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Aug 2017. (link)