FINANCIAL TIMES CONTRIBUTIONS
US equity markets have never been safer - Despite the title, this Financial Times Alphaville story includes measures for the total value destruction by key underwriters and auditors. Here’s a pdf version.
Trump Media’s auditor is really bad at spelling his own name (ft.com) - Auditor “Ben Borgers” had been on my radar for about a year before I sent the data to the FT. Kudos to the SEC and PCAOB for shutting him down. Here’s a pdf version—hilarious read!
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
My dissertation dives deep into corporate fraud models, and explains why finding the needle in the haystack is likely to stay there.
PEPFAR Spending Types and Reduction in HIV Infection Rates | medRxiv (Working Paper, 2022)
In this paper, I measure and document marginal effects of various spending types of the PEPFAR program (e.g., treatment, prevention, etc.) on new HIV infections.
I have four publications with Econ Journal Watch. In this series:
I identify problems with using Benford’s Law in corporate fraud detection
I call for an investigation into academic misconduct relating to a “fraud detection paper” published in a top academic journal following identification of problematic coding “errors.”
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EDUCATION
University of California | Berkeley, CA | PhD
Columbia Business School | New York City | MBA
University of Georgia | Athens, GA | BBA
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Treasurer for the Committee for Excellent Burlingame Schools 2024
Pride Committee for Filoli
2018 AIDS/Lifecycle
