Working Papers
My research is in the areas of Corporate Finance, Banking, Mortgage Finance, and Household/Real Estate Finance
My research is in the areas of Corporate Finance, Banking, Mortgage Finance, and Household/Real Estate Finance
Cost Pass-Through and Mortgage Credit: The Case of Guarantee Fees
with Ankit Kalda and David Sovich
Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Finance
Presented at: 2025 ABFER Conference, 2025 Northern Finance Association Conference, 2025 Southern Finance Association Conference, 2025 Modern Finance Conference (Online), 2024 Michigan State FCU Conference, 2024 LAPE-FINEST Spring Workshop, 2024 Indiana University Seminar, 2024 University of Florida Seminar
Direct from Syndication: Syndication Costs, Liquidity, and Growth of Direct Lending
with Christopher James and Tao Li
Presented at: 2026 Boca Finance and Real Estate Conference (November 2026)
Fintech Entry, Mortgage Pricing, and the Geography of Prepayment
Job Market Paper
I examine how geographic variation in mortgage loan prepayment affects fintech lender entry, expansion, and loan pricing in the mortgage market. Fintech lenders have an advantage in recapturing borrowers to whom they have made loans when those borrowers refinance their mortgages. Borrowers from fintech lenders tend to prepay faster than borrowers from other lenders, which is partially caused by characteristics of those borrowers and partially caused by the fintechs finding borrowers who would not otherwise have refinanced and causing them to do so. I identify the borrower characteristics that lead to higher prepayment and those that allow fintech lenders to induce higher prepayment and show that the presence of the latter characteristics lead to fintech lender entry. Finally, I show how fintech lending to this borrower type explains secular trends in prepayment and through this, mortgage pricing.
The Hedging Value of Banks’ Deposit Franchises
with Mark Flannery, Victor Jarosiewicz, and Sorin Sorescu