My research focuses on the
financial sector and its workers
(e.g., fund managers, traders,
bankers, regulators). I construct theoretical models aimed at
helping us understand how workers'
ability, performance, and compensation interact.
Refereed
Publications
Financial
Expertise as an Arms Race
[with Richard
C. Green and Richard Lowery]
*
Journal of Finance,
forthcoming [WP version]
* Terker
Family Prize in Financial Research for 2010 [2nd prize] --- Rodney
L.
White Center at Wharton
Why
Mutual Funds "Underperform"
* Journal of
Financial
Economics 99, March
2011, pp.
546-559 [WP version]
* Best
Paper on Capital Markets ---
2008 NFA Meeting
* Best
Paper on
Investments ---
2007 FMA Meeting