## Research Interests: 

Corporate Governance; Shareholder Activism; Proxy Voting; ML for NLP  

My SSRN Author Page; My Google Scholar Page; My ResearchGate Page

## Published Articles and Working Paper(s) with R&R

- Attention to Detail: Learning About Mergers, with Adam L. Aiken

• R&R at Journal of Corporate Finance

• Presented at the University of Rhode Island, Sungkyunkwan University, Clemson University, St. John's University, the 2021 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference (New Ideas Session), the 2021 Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM), the 2021 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference, the 2022 Financial Markets and Corporate Governance (FMCG) Conference, the 2022 Financial Regulations and Technology Conference, the 2022 FMA European Conference, the 2023 Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA), and the 2023 Joint Conference with the Korea Institute of Finance, the Korea-America Economic Association, and the Korea-America Finance Association

- Conservatism and Representativeness Heuristic in Peer Reviews: Evidence from the Finance Literature 1946-2020, with Kee H. Chung, Journal of Banking and Finance 160 (2024), 107093

• Featured in Cambridge Judge Business School News (4/11/2023)

- Shining a Light in a Dark Corner: Does EDGAR Search Activity Reveal the Strategically Leaked Plans of Activist Investors?, with Ryan Flugum, and Matthew E. Souther, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 58 (2023), 2820-2851.

• Awarded Best Paper at the 2020 Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM)

• Awarded Outstanding Paper for Overseas Scholars at the 2021 Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA)

• Top Paper Session at the 2021 Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Conference

• Semi-finalist for Best Corporate Finance Paper at the 2021 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference

• Featured in Institutional Investor (6/5/2020), the Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog (6/15/2020), Canadian Investment Review (7/2/2020), and Agenda (2/18/2022)

• Cited by the US Senate (7/18/2022) and the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (4/28/2023) in discussion of SEC rule proposals (Release No. 33-11030; 34-94211, “Modernization of Beneficial Ownership Reporting”) 

- What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas? Firsthand Experience and EDGAR Search Activity in Las Vegas Casino Hotels, with Ryan Flugum, and Matthew E. Souther, Financial Management 52 (2023), 409-432.

- Mitigating Information Imperfections in Proxy Contests: The Effect of Dissidents' Proxy Solicitation, Journal of Corporate Finance 69 (2021), 102011. 

- Managerial Reliance on the Retail Shareholder Vote: Evidence from Proxy Delivery Methods, with Matthew E. Souther, Management Science 66 (2020), 1717-1736.

• Featured in the Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog (5/29/2017), the Oxford Law School Business Law Blog (6/13/2017), and Corporate Secretary (7/27/2017)

- Let’s Talk Sooner Rather Than Later: The Strategic Communication Decisions of Activist Blockholders, with Adam L. Aiken, Journal of Corporate Finance 62 (2020), 101593.

- Voting Methods for Director Election, Monitoring Costs, and Institutional Ownership, with Kee H. Chung, Journal of Banking and Finance 113 (2020), 105738.

- Passive Blockholders, Informational Efficiency of Prices, and Firm Value, with Kee H. Chung, and Carl Hsin-han Shen, Review of Financial Economics 38 (2020), 494-512. 

- Antitakeover Statutes and Internal Corporate Governance, with Kee H. Chung, Corporate Governance: An International Review 24 (2016), 468-489. 

- Financial Constraints, Board Governance Standards, and Corporate Cash Holdings, with Heungju Park, Review of Financial Economics 28 (2016), 21-34.  

- Corporate Governance and the Informational Efficiency of Prices, with Kee H. Chung, and Sean Yang, Financial Management 45 (2016), 239-260. 

## Working Papers:

- Pension Fund Activism Behind the Scenes, with Brian Blank, and  Brandy Hadley

• Presented at Mississippi State University, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Chung-Ang University, the 2022 Financial Markets and Corporate Governance (FMCG) Conference, the 2022 Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA), the 2022 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference, the 2022 Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Conference, and the 2024 Southwestern Finance Association (SWFA) Annual Meeting

• Scheduled to be presented at the 2024 European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Meeting 

- The CFA Program and Mutual Fund Voting on Environmental and Social Proposals, with Adam L. Aiken, and H. Zafer Yuksel

• Presented at the University of Rhode Island

• Scheduled to be presented at the 2024 FMA Asia/Pacific Conference 

- Not In My Backyard: Personal Bias in Mutual Fund Voting on Environmental and Social Proposals, with Ryan Flugum, and Matthew E. Souther

• Presented at the University of Rhode Island

## Work-in-Progress Studies (those with empirical results):

- Early Detection of Shareholder Activism, with Nicole M. Boyson

## Other Research-Related Activities:

• Reproducibility in Management Science, with Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali I. Ozkes, and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (2023), Forthcoming at Management Science.

• Participation in a comment on the SEC's beneficial ownership rules - Release No. 33-11030; 34-94211: A Comment Letter from 65 Law and Finance Professors (4/11/2022)

• Participation in a comment on the SEC's swaps proposal - Release No. 34-93784; A Comment Letter from 85 Law and Finance Professors (3/21/2022)

## Media Citations:

• Cambridge Judge faculty among most-published authors in top finance journals, Cambridge Judge Business School News (4/11/2023)

• Boards May Get a New Tool to Stem Activist Threats, Agenda (2/18/2022)

• Are activist investors strategically leaking plans to institutional investors? Canadian Investment Review (7/2/2020)

• Shining a Light on Strategically Leaked Plans of Activist Investors, the Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog (6/15/2020)

• Investors Seem to Know About Activist Campaigns Before They Happen. Should They? Institutional Investor (6/5/2020)

• Get-out-the-vote efforts can work, officials say, Corporate Secretary (7/27/2017)

• Managerial Reliance on the Retail Shareholder Vote: Evidence from Proxy Delivery Methods, the Oxford Law School Business Law Blog (6/13/2017)

• Proxy Delivery Methods Show How Managers Rely on the Retail Shareholder Vote, the Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog (5/29/2017)

## Academic Conferences/Symposiums (by myself; not including those by coauthors):

• Presentation at the Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting; 2024

• Presentation at the Financial Regulations and Technology Conference; 2022

• Presentation at the Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA); 2021, 2022, and 2023

• Presentation at the Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference (FMCG); 2021, and 2022 

• Presentation at the Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM); 2020, and 2021  

• Presentation at the Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference; 2020, and 2021 

• Presentation at the Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting; 2019, and 2020

• Presentation at the Annual KAFA-KCMI Joint Symposium; 2018 

• Presentations at the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting; 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022  

• Presentation at the Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting; 2014

• Discussion at the Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting; 2024

• Discussion at the Financial Regulations and Technology Conference; 2022

• Discussion at the Global AI Finance Research Conference; 2021

• Discussion at the Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA); 2021

• Discussion at the Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference (FMCG); 2021, and 2022 

• Discussion at the Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM); 2020 

• Discussion at the Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference; 2020, and 2021

• Discussion at the Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting; 2019, and 2020 

• Discussions at the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting; 2011, 2015 and 2021

• Discussion at the Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting; 2014

• Discussion at the 13th Korea America Finance Association Brown Bag Seminar; 2022

• Program Committee for the FMA Applied Finance Conference; 2022

• Program Committee for the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting; 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023

• Program Committee for the Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting; 2020

## Invited Presentations:

• Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea (July 2023)

• Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA (April 2023)

• Sungkyunkwan University, Virtual, (November, 2021)

• University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA (October 2018)

• Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea (June 2018)

• Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea (May 2017)

• Peking University - HSBC, Shenzhen, China (December 2015)

## Grants & Awards:

• Provost Faculty Development Fund (URI); September 2022, and November 2023

• Best Discussant Award at the Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference; 2021

• Outstanding Paper Award for Overseas Scholars at the Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA); 2021

• Best Paper Award at the Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM); 2020

• Dean's Award for Excellence in Research at the University of Rhode Island (College of Business); 2020

• Summer Research Grants at Quinnipiac University; 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018

• Alutto Fund (for PhD Candidate) at SUNY at Buffalo; 2010

## Ad-Hoc Referee:

- Management Science; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Journal of Corporate Finance; Journal of Banking and Finance; Review of Financial Economics; Financial Review; Emerging Markets Finance and Trade; Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies; European Journal of Finance; Corporate Governance: An International Review; Financial Analysts Journal; International Finance