PhD Candidate in Economics
Goethe University Frankfurt
I am a PhD candidate at Goethe University Frankfurt (Graduate School of Economics, Finance and Management). I study how trust and beliefs drive economic behavior, with applications in household finance, development, and environmental economics.
Working Papers
Branches and Roots: Banking Presence and Deforestation in Amazonian Indigenous Lands
Each additional bank branch near an indigenous territory in the Amazon reduces cumulative forest loss by 1.7 km² over five years — not through income effects, but through social capital: branches increase local interactions, build community ties, and reduce criminal networks’ capacity to operate.
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Actual and Perceived Financial Knowledge over the Life Cycle
Unjustified financial confidence raises the probability of retirement-account leakage, identified using parental financial teaching as exogenous variation; the welfare cost is small over the working life (0.08% of consumption) but reaches 1.7% at retirement, when labor income no longer buffers miscalibrated decisions.
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Work in Progress
War Narratives and Household Inflation Expectations
Publications
In Engineering
New Technologies for Newborn Safety
[Patent] Oral Feeding Readiness Prediction System for Neonates. Korean Intellectual Property Office, 2024.
Quantitative non-nutritive sucking measurement as a predictor of oral feeding readiness in newborns. (Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023)
A silver nanowire-based flexible pressure sensor to measure the non-nutritive sucking power of neonates. (Micro & Nano Systems Letters, 2020)