As much as I enjoyed my first teaching success, I still believed that the true value of teaching comes from learning and sharing with others something new rather than just efficiently communicating well-known facts. This belief led me to taking the three-year break from teaching to acquire some new and unique knowledge I could share with students. The year after I received my B.A. degree, I returned to my alma mater to teach the labs in econometrics and, subsequently, topics in econometrics. I was excited to see that I was able to tell the students more than what they could read in the textbook and share my passion for the in-depth study of the subject. I also taught labs in Industrial Organization and Empirics of Financial Markets at the graduate school where I was a student. During the latter assignment I became convinced that the best way to be an effective and valuable teacher is to become an active researcher as well.

After I was enrolled in the PhD program at Simon, I took another break from teaching to advance in research. This summer, I designed and taught a course in economics for the incoming PhD students. It was a truly unique and exciting opportunity to share my view of economics and the role of economic principles in research with my future colleagues.

My goal is to have an opportunity to teach both the general undergraduate and MBA courses and the specialized Master and PhD level courses. I believe that, while different, teaching both sets of courses can be equally rewarding. My wide and strong background in economics allows me to teach undergraduate and MBA level courses on a wide array of topics. These topics (such as international finance, microeconomics, or capital budgeting) may not intersect with my research agenda, because it has to stay focused, but I still feel genuine interest in them. I would also cherish each opportunity to teach a Master or PhD level course on the research topics I am passionate about, such as empirical asset pricing and financial econometrics.