He has published articles in the top academic venues on various aspects of asset pricing, including contagion across emerging markets, index effects on equity prices, and the impact of preferences for lottery-like assets on stock and option prices. He is a co-organizer of the annual Red Rock Finance Conference, which brings together top researchers in academia to discuss finance research. Brian earned a PhD in Finance from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Prior to graduate school, he spent two years working at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve on various research projects to better understand how to forecast correlations and volatilities of asset returns.