He currently holds the Kingland MBA Professorship and Dean’s Professorship in Finance. His research explores the financing of innovation and the institutional determinants of economic performance. His most recent work studies how country-level tax and policy reforms impact corporate R&D spending, and how the development of local banking markets affect both household credit management and regional economic growth. His research has been published in leading academic journals in finance, management, and innovation studies, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and Research Policy. In 2016 he received the MBA Executive Advisory Council Teaching Excellence award. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. with Honors from Transylvania University.