Welcome!
I am an assistant professor in the Finance and Business Economics Department at USC Marshall. I graduated with a PhD in Finance from NYU Stern in May 2024.
My research focuses on questions in banking and applied macroeconomics, using tools from the spatial economics and industrial organization literatures.
Research Interests:
Primary: Financial Intermediation and Banking, Applied Macroeconomics
Secondary: Spatial Economics, Industrial Organization, Climate Change
Contact Email: qmaingi@marshall.usc.edu
Main Publications
Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers [Online Appendix] , with Xavier Giroud, Simone Lenzu, Holger Mueller
Econometrica, Volume 92 (No. 5), September 2024, Pages 1589--1619
Working Papers
Lawrence G. Goldberg prize for outstanding dissertation in Financial Intermediation, NYU Stern (2024)
A Quantity Based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios, with Georgij Alekseev, Stefano Giglio, Julia Selgrad, Johannes Stroebel
R&R, Journal of Finance
Best Paper in Asset Pricing, SFS Calvancade (2022)
Two Sigma Award for Best Paper on Investment Management, WFA (2022)
Runner Up, ICPM Research Award (2023)