Law, policy & finance
I write essays on public policy and finance, build analytical tools, and work on legal and strategic problems. This site hosts all of my most recent work.
Hi! I'm Matthew Livingstone — a student at the University of Windsor currently finishing a strategy internship in Toronto. I compete in mock trials, moot courts and finance competitions, and I run the legal team at my university’s student investment fund. This site is where I share the projects, essays, and tools I’m building along the way.
This project is an application I built and later converted into a web app to examine the workforce impact of an M&A transaction by estimating departmental overlap, potential role consolidation, employee departures, integration costs, and retention risk. It turns those findings into a visual report that helps decision-makers quickly identify which parts of the combined organization require the most immediate attention during integration
Automaticity is a site I coded to help me memorize my multiplication tables, country locations, and national flags using fast, repetitive multiple-choice quizzes with instant feedback. I built it after discovering how effective that style of learning was for geography and realizing nothing similar existed for multiplication. I plan to expand the subject matter beyond just math and geography to the sciences.
I built this Excel-based ESG risk-scoring model for my student investment fund to give our investment teams a clearer, more consistent view of the environmental, social, and governance risks facing the companies they analyze.
This essay examines the global collapse in fertility rates and why falling below the replacement rate matters for economics, politics, migration, and national strategy. Using examples from Japan, Canada, Hungary, South Korea, and China, it explores how demographic decline is reshaping the future of states and why Canada’s reliance on immigration is becoming one of its most important long-term policy questions.
This paper is delves into the ESG reporting regime that Canadian mining companies are subject to, and explores the challenges and industry trends shaping ESG disclosure in the sector.
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The essays cover policy, markets, and law. The projects turn that thinking into tools, reports, and dashboards.
