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Okay, that takes the pressure off. My
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name is Courtney Wagand and I'm an
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assistant professor at Wharton in the
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finance department. I grew up in DC, but
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for the past six years I've been in New
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York pursuing my PhD in finance from NYU
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Stern. I study how financial markets
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respond to fiscal and monetary policy
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with a specific focus on the asset
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pricing response from news coming out of
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Congress and the Federal Reserve.
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[music] I interned at the House Budget
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Committee when I was in college where I
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got firsthand experience learning about
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the budget process in Congress. And then
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after I graduated from college, I spent
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two years as a research assistant at the
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Federal Reserve Board where I learned
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more about financial markets and asset
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pricing. [music] And so this combination
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of both monetary policy and finance as
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well as my fiscal policy experience
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naturally led me to want to study the
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intersection of these two things.
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>> I'm excited to get to know my colleagues
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better, learn more about their research
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projects, and [music] explore different
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ways that we can connect and collaborate
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together.
