I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at Durham University Business School. I obtained my Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt in April 2023. My research interests primarily lie in the fields of corporate finance, private equity, entrepreneurship, blockchain economics, and data science.

Working Papers

Financial Market Misconduct and Public Enforcement: The Case of Cum-Ex Trading
(with Mark Wahrenburg), 2024.
Media: Bloomberg

How Do Shareholder Defaults Influence Corporate Governance in DeFi Lending?
(with Le (Tim) Dong and Hao Zhang), 2025.

Credit Cycles in Tokenized Real Estate Markets
(with Daniel Ruf and Wenqian Huang), 2025.

The Market for Corporate Control in DeFi
(with Michele Fabi and Romain Rossello), 2025.

The Economics of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, 2023.
Media: YouTube

Published Papers

Conflicted Analysts and Initial Coin Offerings
(with Andreas Barth, Sasan Mansouri, and Alexander F. Wagner),
Management Science, Vol. 69, No. 11 (2023), pp. 6417–7150.

Conflicts of Interest and Market Failures in Unregulated Capital Markets: Evidence from ICO Analysts
(with Andreas Barth, Sasan Mansouri, and Alexander F. Wagner),
Chapter in Blockchain Scholars Book, Forthcoming, edited by Daniel Liebau and Simon Trimborn, Springer Nature.