Welcome!
I am a PhD Student in the Finance department at the NYU Stern School of Business. This summer, I will be joining USC Marshall as an assistant professor in the Finance and Business Economics Department.
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: rmaingi@stern.nyu.edu
Working Papers
Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers [Online Appendix] , with Xavier Giroud, Simone Lenzu, Holger Mueller
Conditionally Accepted, Econometrica
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)