The Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing with Kunal Sachdeva and Varun Sharma

• Revise & Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies

• International Center for Pension Management Research Award, 2022

• Best Paper, European Investment Forum (Cambridge), 2021

• Best Paper in Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions at the FMA European Conference, 2021

• Moskowitz Prize for Best Paper in Sustainable and Responsible Investing, 2020

• Conferences:  Sciences Po and HEC Summer Workshop in Sustainable Finance*, FIRS 2022, UC Santa Barbara Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics, Oklahoma Energy Finance Conference 2022, AFA 2022, European Investment Forum (Cambridge), SFS Cavalcade 2021, MIT Golub Center Conference, Weinberg Center - Corporate Governance Symposium 2021, MFA 2021, Political Economy of Finance Conference 2020 (Chicago Booth), EFA 2020, Texas Finance Festival 2020, UBC Winter Finance Conference 2020, European Winter Finance Conference 2020, World Symposium on Investment Research 2020 (Zurich), Mid-Atlantic Research Conference in Finance 2020 (MARC), ISB Summer Conference 2020, NFA 2020, GRASFI 2020 (Columbia University), ADBI-JBF-SMU Green and Ethical Finance Conference

• Media Coverage: Financial Times, International Pensions Europe, ProMarket (Stigler Center at Chicago Booth)

Women's Inheritance Rights and Entrepreneurship Gender Gap 

• WFA Best Student Paper Award (USC Marshall School of Business Trefftzs Award), 2019

• WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, 2019

• LBS Wheeler Institute Award, 2019

• CICF Best Paper Award, 2019

• Conferences:  NBER-ISB Conference 2022, BSE Summer Forum, EFA 2020, WFA 2019, SFS Cavalcade North America, FIRS 2019, 2019 Colorado Finance Summit,  19th REER Conference, FMA 2019, NFA 2019, CICF 2019, USC PhD Conference in Finance, LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference

• Seminars: Arizona State University (W.P Carey), Boston College (Carroll), Harvard Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, Notre Dame (Mendoza), University of Michigan (Ross), University of Rochester (Simon), University of Texas Dallas (Naveen Jindal), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Environmental health risks, property values and neighborhood composition with Jules Van Binsbergen, João F. Cocco, and Marco Grotteria

• Conferences:  AFA 2025*, EIEF Rome Juniors Finance Conference*, University of Kentucky Conference,  LUISS Finance Workshop, CEPR Endless Summer Conference on Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance , Urban Economics Association, EPA National TRI Conference, TCU Neeley Finance Conference, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory 

Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation with Rebecca De Simone and Kunal Sachdeva 

• Conferences:  AFA 2025*, UGA Fall Finance Conference*, Third Conference in Sustainable Finance (Luxembourg)*, GRASFI 2024*, 2024 Bozeman Applied Economics Summer Conference*, CEPR Endless Summer Conference on Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance*, SFS Cavalcade 2024, ABFER 2024, Mitsui Symposium on Comparative Corporate Governance, Bristol Applied Economic Meetings, UC Davis-FMA Napa Finance Conference, Baruch Climate and Sustainability Conference,  WEFIDEV Webinar

Investments that Make our Homes Greener: The Role of Regulation with Nuno Clara, João F. Cocco, and Varun Sharma

• Conferences:  AFA 2025*, ABFER 2024, novobanco Symposium on Sustainability and Green Transition, Georgetown-Clarke Symposium on Global Real Estate, FIRS 2023, SFS Cavalcade 2023, University of Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Conference, NBER Summer Institute (Real Estate), AREUEA (New Orleans), UNC Real Estate Research Symposium, OCC Symposium on Climate Risk in Banking and Finance, KWC/SNEE Conference on Sustainable Finance, HEC-HKUST Sustainable Finance Seminar, FMA (Atlanta), Urban Economics Association, Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting

• Media Coverage: VoxEU

Foreign Influence in U.S. Politics with Marco Grotteria and Max Miller 

• Conferences: WFA 2024 (Hawaii)*, CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 2024*,  NICEP 2024, CEPR Geonomics, NBER Summer Institute (Political Economy) 2023, EBRD-CEPR Symposium on Geopolitics of Trade, Edinburgh Corporate Finance Conference, Strategy & the Business Environment Conference (Georgetown), CEPR Political Economy, ISB Summer Research Conference 2022, FMA (Atlanta), Emerging Scholars in Banking and Finance Conference, Craig Holden Memorial Finance Conference

• Media Coverage: ProMarket (Stigler Center at Chicago Booth)

Conflicting Objectives of ESG Funds: Evidence from Proxy Voting with Kunal Sachdeva and Tao Li

• Conferences:  Clemson University ESG Conference (Hayek), FMA Europe 2022, CICF 2022 FMA Annual Meetings (Denver) 2021, Vanguard, International Monetary Fund

• Media Coverage: UNPRI Academic Blog

Rural roads, small business creation, and the gender-gap in entrepreneurship with Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh, and Abhiroop Mukherjee

• Conferences:  DIW Finance and Development 2023, Nova Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference, WEFIDEV Webinar, Junior Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Workshop

Winds of Change: Gender Quota on Boards in the face of Patriarchy with Kasper Nielsen

• Conferences:  AEA Annual Meetings 2024, Financial Markets and Corporate Governance 2022, NSE-NYU India Conference, New Zealand Finance Meeting 2021, FMA 2021 (Denver), Corporate Finance Day (Erasmus), MFA 2021, Eastern FA 2021, CICF 2021

Online Sales and Firm Resilience with Francisco Gomes and Oksana Smirnova

(*) to be presented