Honored to receive a Distinguished #Referee Award for the Review of Financial Studies Society for Financial Studies. Happy to contribute to the profession and the #FinTech and #microstructure communities! Rotman School UTMManagement

Thrilled to announce our trading #gamification study is now in press at Management Science INFORMS! Confetti 🎉 and badges boost trading by novice investors. Price alerts 📉📈may lead investors to double down on mistakes. Haskayne School of Business #researchpaper doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2…

I am proudly using Databento for my trading class at Haskayne School of Business — and have been doing that at UTMManagement before this year. It’s a fantastic opportunity for students to really dig deep into professional grade market data and build up their coding skills.

The race to zero is not over yet.. #hft ft.com/content/099342…

We’re #hiring! Join the #Finance Area at Haskayne School of Business. Looking for ambitious recent #PhD grads passionate about #FinTech: #DeFi, machine learning, AI, & modern market structure. 🗓️ Apply by Dec 20, 2024. I am looking forward to read your applications! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/15280157-…

I just published an article in The Conversation Canada on how #trading gamification can amplify young investors' biases—and speculation on how #AI could improve financial literacy at scale to counter the risks. Check it out! 📈💡 Haskayne School of Business #research theconversation.com/gamified-inves…

The whole narrative that Trudeau is spinning is full of half-truths and half-lies: yes, universities have increased international student enrolment over the last decade. But this happened with the explicit encouragement of the federal, Trudeau government. There was a federal

Had a great chat this morning with Manjula Selvarajah on CBC Radio about the rise & risks of #gamified investing, inspired by our recent #behavioral experiment in Management Science. Listen here: cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… Haskayne School of Business #research #finance #trading

Delighted to be elected as a 2024 #Academic #Fellow of the Institut Louis Bachelier Institute! Looking forward to strengthening ties between Haskayne School of Business and the amazing French #finance research network, including my former colleagues at DRM DAUPHINE. institutlouisbachelier.org/reseau/louis-b…

Not bad for a first-time course prep! Back in August, I taught a one-week deep dive into coding for quant finance to a group of fantastic Haskayne School of Business students, using institutional grade trade-and-quote data from Databento. #quantfinance #trading #data #teaching

The rest of Canada should stop vilifying Danielle Smith, and start listening to her theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

I had a wonderful conversation with Karina Zapata from CBC Calgary about "gambling incentives" on modern trading apps, and how retail investors should be aware of their own biases. Check it out here: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… #research Haskayne School of Business

How should central counterparties compete? In Europe, 75% of trades use #CCP interoperability, but 25% default to a preferred model. Our research shows that HFTs and network effects discipline fee competition, leading to lower fees under the preferred model. Paper:

The call for the 8th Dauphine Finance PhD Workshop joint with the CEPR is out! Submit your best work by the 27th of April via the CEPR platform and see you in Paris in July. Excited to host Wenxin Du who will be delivering the keynote address.

Alberta’s separatists have no case for breaking away from Canada theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…

New in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance: w/ Mariana Khapko & Chapkovski, we show that #gamified trading nudges fuel risk-taking -- especially in volatile assets. Boosting financial literacy by 1σ cuts the effect by 56%! 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef… #BehavioralFinance #FinTech Haskayne School of Business

New #paper in J. Financial Markets! Time priority queues hurt risk-sharing if tick size binds. We use TMX Group data on 🇨🇦 sovereign futures to show inventory frictions explain up to 8% of depth variation. Batch auctions / dealer markets may do better. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.finm…