Faculty Spotlight

• A lot of my work tries to bring together the financial markets, the market microstructure side, and the corporate finance side.

  

• I’m a development economist. I work to understand why some countries are poor and others are rich, and what we can do about the deprivation that comes with poverty.

  

• We’ve known for decades that a lack of social connection is associated with poor mental health. It’s associated with poor physical health, too. I think what we’re starting to understand is the reality of how significant those consequences are.

  

• When you look deeply enough, accounting is a set of agreed-upon rules to produce the evolving financial story of an organization. Notice I didn’t say a history. The history is part of the story, but not all of it.