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In general, my research focuses on the behavior of both individual investors and financial institutions, including mutual funds, investment banks, and the financial media. My ongoing research focuses on the outsourcing of portfolio management in the U.S. mutual fund industry (a practice know as subadvising) and on the determinants of individual retirement behavior. My prior research has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

After receiving my Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, I spent one year as a postdoctoral research fellow at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College, I was an assistant professor of finance at the University of Oregon for five years, where I was named the Laura and Abbott Keller Distinguished Research Scholar. I was also the receipt of the Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award (Winter 2007) and the James E. Reinmuth MBA Teaching Excellence Award from the first year class (2007-08).

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