I am a third-year PhD student in Financial Economics at the Department of Finance at Imperial College London. My research is focussed on questions in household finance, behavioural finance and macroeconomics, with a particular emphasis on housing and mortgage markets.
Work in Progress
Reference Dependent Beliefs and Expectations (with Cristian Badarinza, Dimitris Georgarakos, Geoff Kenny and Tarun Ramadorai)
On Home Mover Dependence in UK Housing (solo authored)
Other Research Work
- VC Fund Game — an interactive venture capital investment simulation in which players allocate a budget across funding rounds to build a portfolio under uncertainty; co-developed with Ramana Nanda and Savitar Sundaresan.
Teaching
- TA for Corporate Finance for MSc Finance (Imperial College London)
Pre-doctoral Research Assistance
Research projects I worked on as a pre-doctoral research assistant (2020 to 2023), prior to my PhD:
Household Finance in Retrospect and Prospect — John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai. NBER Working Paper, 2026 (forthcoming, Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives).
Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone — John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Putty-Clay Automation — Joseba Martinez. London Business School and CEPR, 2025.
In Search of the Matching Function in the Housing Market — Cristian Badarinza, Vimal Balasubramaniam and Tarun Ramadorai. Working Paper, 2024.
The Sweet Life: The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood — Paul Gertler and Tadeja Gračner. NBER Working Paper 30799, 2023 (R&R, Journal of Political Economy).
Other Experience
- Deloitte Haskins and Sells, Hyderabad, India — Audit and Assurance (2013–2017)
- Assistant Manager (2016–2017)
- Trainee (2013–2016)
Education
- PhD in Financial Economics, Imperial College London, UK (ongoing)
- Recipient of the Imperial President’s Scholarship for academic excellence
- MSc in Economics, University of Warwick, UK, 2019 (Distinction)
- Chartered Accountant, India, 2016
- Bachelor of Commerce, Osmania University, India, 2015