She has a PhD in Economics from ESSEC Business School and THEMA University of Cergy-Pontoise. Her research is at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics with an emphasis on the role that financial intermediaries play in the real economy with research interests that include financial crises, economic growth, global games and time series econometrics. Her work has won the 2016 Olga Radzyner Award from the National Bank of Austria and her PhD won the best thesis prize from the Banque de France Foundation for Monetary, Financial and Banking Economic Research.