Drechsler, Itamar
Business and EconomicsFinance
The Debt of Cities: Financing Local Public Investment
Cities, towns, counties, school districts, water districts, and other local public entities in the US are responsible for most infrastructure investment today. In order to finance much of this investment, they borrow over $400 billion per year in public capital markets by issuing municipal bonds. This project seeks to understand newly emerging phenomenon and issues in public finance markets in the US and abroad.
I'm happy to work with undergraduates broadly interested in public debt and investment in public infrastructure, especially if we can create data products that are useful across more than one project.
Sports Analytics: Using data to change the way sports are played, managed and developed
Sports and gaming have been revolutionized by data analytics, popularized by Michael Lewis' book "Moneyball". I supervise many different research project across sports and games (including betting) that use data to learn new things.
Energy Justice Lab
Researcher of energy justice, the energy transition, and decarbonization strategies
International Monetary History
How did the international monetary system evolve in the 1970s after the dollar went off gold?
Finance