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Eugene has expertise in econometric and statistical analysis. He has over 10 years of experience in applied economic analysis including teaching, academic research, and consulting.
Professional Experience
Eugene has extensive experience in applying sophisticated econometric, statistical, and data mining methodologies to a broad spectrum of industries. He has focused on the financial sector including mutual funds, investment advisory firms, mortgage companies, and banks. Eugene has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in mathematical methods, microeconomics, time-series and cross-section econometrics, and financial econometrics.
Representative examples of Eugene's engagement experience include:
Securities
Led a team of economists to investigate the incidence of late trading and market timing by shareholders for the board of directors of a large mutual fund family. Calculated impact of market timing on other shareholders and advised legal council of the board in their negotiations with the financial advisory firm.
Investigated the nature of frequent trading practices by shareholders for a mutual fund family. Based on his analysis, the fund was successful in arguing in front of the SEC that the frequent trading was not motivated by market timing.
Investigated the statistical evidence for the backdating of employee option grants for a retail chain store. Developed statistical procedures, including event studies and non-parametric permutation tests, to investigate these option grants.
Analyzed security trading patterns for evidence of unfair trading practices as part of a preparation for a routine investigation by the SEC for an investment advisory firm. Analyzed IPO allocation procedures to check for preferential treatment of certain funds. Investigated trading data for frontrunning, and proper implementation of side-by-side trading procedures.
Anti-money Laundering
Led a team of economists to develop quantitative detection algorithms to detect potential money laundering and terrorist financing for a large Wall Street correspondent bank. Successfully defended the methods in discussions with regulatory agencies. Developed statistical procedures to evaluate the quality of automated detection rules.
Sampling
Designed bootstrap methods to correct for problems that developed during a sample collection phase for a litigation engagement.
Evaluated the appropriateness of a naïve analysis of sampling data that was obtained by an ad-hoc and complex sampling methodology for the quality control department of an investment advisory firm.
Designed a sampling methodology used in an industry survey for a national trade association.
Economic Consulting
Estimated mortgage demand functions, including demand elasticity and product cannibalization effects for a wholesale mortgage company.
Education & Certifications
Doctor of Philosophy, Economics, Northwestern University
Doctorandus, Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Professional Associations
Member, American Economic Association
Member, American Statistical Association
Member, Econometric Society
Research
Estimating Deterministic Trends in the Presence of Serially Correlated Errors, with Mark W. Watson, Review of Economics and Statistics. Summer 1997.
Measuring Market Integration: Foreign Exchange Arbitrage and The Gold Standard, 1879-1913, with Gauri Prakash-Canjels and Alan Taylor. Review of Economics and Statistics. November 2004.
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