Serious Business
- The Market for Risk-Sharing [Blog]March 2025
- From News to Research Ideas: A Translation Manual [Blog]February 2025
- 9 Things I Learned from the 2024 California Wildfires [Blog]February 2025
- The Curse of the OECD Average [Blog]November 2024
- Regulating Insurers in the US [Blog]March 2024
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to Demand System Asset Pricing [Blog]June 2023
- 9 Things I Learned from SVB [Blog]April 2023
- On Writing (Academic Papers) Well [Blog]February 2023
- When Securitization Met Private Equity [Blog]January 2023
- Financial Approach to Environmental Sustainability [Blog]August 2022
- Standard way to cluster standard errors [Blog]May 2022
- Financial Markets in Monetary Policy [Blog]March 2022
- Fixing Identification with Fixed Effects [Blog]February 2022
- Finance Questions for DeFi [Blog]January 2022
- Measurement Matters [Blog]December 2021
- Elon's Natural Experiment [Blog]November 2021
- Replicating Portfolios [Blog]October 2021
- Selection Bias in Finance [Blog]September 2021
- Institutional Details and History for Finance PhDs [Blog]August 2021
- Skewness Strikes Back [Blog]July 2021
- Levels vs. Changes [Blog]May 2021
- Insurance Frauds Galore [Blog]March 2021
- Variation in SVARs [Blog]January 2021
- Programming in Stata vs. Python [Blog]December 2020
- Expectation Extraction [Blog]September 2020
- Khwaja-Mian (2008) Estimator [Blog]July 2020
Navel-Gazing
- Joint Hypothesis Problems in Life [Blog]January 2025
- How to Make Academic Slides [Blog]November 2024
- Figure Ones [Blog]October 2024
- What's in a good (academic) seminar presentation? [Blog]August 2024
- Quantifying the Surprise Factor in Paper Titles [Blog]December 2022
Essays
Better Know A Dataset (BKAD)
- The Mathematics of "Which Character Are You?" [Blog]October 2024
- Of Motor Vehicles and Men [Blog]May 2024
Conference Recap
- NBER Asset Pricing Summer Institute 2025 [Program] [Recap]July 2025
- NYU Stern Summer Climate Finance Conference [Program] [Recap]May 2025
- NBER Insurance Spring 2025 Meeting [Program] [Recap]May 2025
- NBER AP & LTAM Spring 2025 Meeting [Program] [Recap]April 2025
- 7th IMF Annual Macro-Financial Research Conference [Program] [Recap]April 2025
- Baruch-JFQA Climate Finance and Sustainability Conference [Program] [Recap]March 2025
- UW Madison Junior Finance Conference [Recap]August 2024
- 3rd Annual Valuation Workshop [Program] [Recap]June 2024
- Firms’ Cost of Capital, Discount Rates, and Investment Conference [Program] [Recap]May 2024