I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. I obtained my Ph.D. in Finance from Copenhagen Business School.
Research interests: Empirical Asset Pricing, Financial Intermediation, Credit Risk.
News and Updates
- 2026–27 I will be on the 2026–27 Academic Job Market.
- Sep 2026 Our paper The On-the-Run Discount won the Best Paper Award in Asset Pricing at the NFA Annual Meeting in Quebec City.
Job Market Paper
The On-the-Run Discount (coauthored with Sven Klingler)
The on-the-run premium is one of the most widely studied phenomena in fixed-income markets. Contrary to this phenomenon, we document that the most recently issued (on-the-run) Treasury bills trade at a discount relative to older bills of comparable maturities. We link this on-the-run discount to auction reopenings and short sellers’ preference for seasoned bills. The preference arises because short sellers can cover their positions with newly auctioned bills. In line with this mechanism, short-selling demand increases as a bill ages and explains up to 67% of the variation in the on-the-run discount. Price-sensitive investors respond to the discount, but their investments are insufficient to correct it.
Award: NFA Best Paper Award in Asset Pricing
Presentations at: Aarhus Finance Forum 2026, Armenian Economic Association Conference 2026*, Bundesbank*, Copenhagen Business School, FMA Annual Meeting 2026*†, FMA European Conference 2026, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, NFA Annual Meeting 2026
Other Working Papers
Why Do Firms Pay More for Bank Loans? The Role of Renegotiation
Firms borrowing from both banks and the corporate bond market pay a substantial premium on bank loans, raising questions about firms’ bargaining power and banks’ competition. In this paper, I show that a large portion of this premium compensates banks for facilitating out-of-court restructurings. I estimate the loan premium and use a 2014 U.S. court ruling, which impeded out-of-court restructurings, as a natural experiment. Following the ruling, affected firms experienced an 80–90 bps reduction in the loan premium, due to reduced restructuring opportunities and a diminished potential to avoid bankruptcy costs. These findings suggest that the renegotiation flexibility provided by banks is a key driver of the loan premium, highlighting the unique value that bank lending offers beyond the capital market.
Award: The Brattle Group Ph.D. Candidate Awards For Outstanding Research
Presentations at: AFA poster 2025, BIGFI Research Retreat, Erasmus School of Economics, FIRS PhD Session 2024, Fudan University, Nordic Finance Network PhD Workshop 2024, NFN Young Scholars Workshop, SFI PhD Workshop, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Tri-City Day-Ahead Workshop 2024, WFA 2025
(Formerly titled: Disentangling the Loan Premium: The Value of Bank Lending)
Bank Equity Risk (coauthored with Jens Dick-Nielsen and David Lando)
Financial regulation has led banks to increase their equity ratios. Yet several studies find that this has not led to a decrease in bank equity risk. We show theoretically, that holding less capital in excess of the minimum capital requirement can outweigh the risk-reducing effect of increased total capitalization on equity. Using times series data and a natural deregulation experiment we find that excess capitalization is a significant determinant of equity risk, and can explain why bank equity risk has not become lower after the Global Financial Crisis. Lower leverage has, however, reduced the cost of bank debt.
Presentations at: Aalto*, Aarhus University*, Bank of England*, Bloomberg*, CICF 2023, Copenhagen Business School, Danish Finance Institute*, Deloitte*, EFA Annual Meeting 2023*, European Banking Authority*, European Central Bank*, Luiss Finance Workshop 2026*, New York Fed*, Norges Bank, Swedish House of Finance, University of Zurich
Forgiven but Not Forgotten: Emerging Market Credit Spreads Following Debt Relief (coauthored with Mikkel Vittrup Hauerberg, David Lando and Aleksander Koldborg Tetzlaff)
We examine yield spreads of government debt issues from countries that have received large-scale debt relief through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). Using data from more than 3,000 bond issues and after controlling for macroeconomic, political, and geographical factors, we find that HIPC governments pay an average yield spread premium of close to 1.5% on USD-denominated and non-USD-denominated bonds compared to similar countries which have not received relief. Markets seem to rationally anticipate a deterioration in the credit quality of relieved countries.
R&R at: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Presentations at: BI Oslo (online)*, Copenhagen Business School, EFA Annual Meeting 2020 (online)*, ESADE Business School (online)*
* presented by co-authors, † scheduled
Discussions
Intraday Price Pressure and Order Flow around US Treasury Auctions (Michael J. Fleming, Weiling Liu, and Giang Nguyen) [Slides]
Multimarket Contact and the Cost of Trading Corporate Bonds (Marco Grotteria, Andreas C. Rapp, Ruslan Sverchkov, and Ram Yamarthy) [Slides]
Information Asymmetry in Cyber Insurance Markets (Dingchen Ning) [Slides]
External Finance Premium: Market Finance versus Bank Finance (Livia Chiţu, Sofia Gori, and Refet S. Gürkaynak) [Slides]
The Fed Put and Bank Risk-Taking: Evidence from the Loan Book (Xudong An, Jan Harren, Saket Hegde, Mete Kilic, and Rodney Ramcharan) [Slides]