Welcome! My name is Paul and I am a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., and teach classes on text mining and financial analytics at the University of Maryland. I also am currently a Research Fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

My research focuses on understanding the role banks play in the real economy. I am also interested in financial and economic questions related to the usage and interpretability of machine learning and natural language processing techniques to quantify unstructured data, particularly text. My research has appeared in leading academic journals including Management Science, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Financial Services Research.

NOTE: This is a personal webpage and any views or information reflect solely the author and are not the views of the Federal Reserve Board.