My Background
Hello! I teach financial modeling and financial data analytics at Wake Forest University. At different times in the past I have taught Intro to Quantitative Finance, FinTech, Corporate Finance, Investments, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Personal Finance, and others.
I have published articles on empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and other areas. My articles have been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Information Systems, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Investing, and Journal of Asset Management.
Although I grew up in Florida, I lived in Brazil for two years, where I learned Portuguese. I'm always looking for a Portuguese speakers to practice. My hobbies include technology, sports, traveling, and the Oxford comma.
Selected Research
"Cross-Country Gender Bias and Corporate Cash Holdings", with Jaroslav Horvath, Finance Research Letters, Accepted January 2025
"The Informativeness of Sentiment Types in Risk Factor Disclosures: Evidence from Firms with Cybersecurity Breaches", with Ronald C.W. Tsang, Amelia A. Baldwin, Joseph F. Hair, Jr, and Ermanno Affuso, Journal of Information Systems, Volume 37 (3), 157--190, 2023, doi: 10.2308/isys-2022-014
"The Investors Exchange's (IEX) Impact on Investors, with Alan Chow and Chris Lawrey, Journal of Asset Management, Volume 22 (1), 2021, 51-61, doi: 10.1057/s41260-020-00194-x
"Motivating Gender Use in Financial Research: A Survey of Recent Literature", Review of Behavioral Finance, Volume 12 (3), 2019, 242-258. doi: 10.1108/RBF-06-2018-0056
"Social Media Sentiment and Market Behavior", with Ermanno Affuso, Empirical Economics, Volume 57 (1), 2019, 105-127, doi: 10.1007/s00181-018-1430-y
"Beta Dispersion and Portfolio Returns", with Chris Lawrey and Ken Hunsader, Journal of Asset Management, Volume 19 (3), 2018, 156-161, doi: 10.1057/s41260-017-0071-6
"Compensation of Investment Advisors", with Stephan Shipe, The Journal of Investing, Volume 27(1), 2018, 80-86, doi: 10.3905/joi.2018.27.1.080
"Readability of Financial Advisor Disclosures", with Stephan Shipe, Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 44, 2017, 36-42, doi: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2017.08.002.