McCombs School of Business

Publications

Working Papers:

“Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors” (with J. McCahery and Z. Sautner)

“CEO Tournaments: A Cross-Country Analysis of Causes, Cultural Influences and Consequences” (with N. Burns and K. Minnick)

“Getting the Incentives Right: Backfilling and Biases in Executive Compensation Data” (with S. Gillan, A. Koch and J. Hartzell)

“Influence of Public Opinion on Investor Voting and Proxy Advisors” (with R. Agrawal and I. Erel)

“Firms’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Choices, Performance and Managerial Motivation” (with S. Gillan, J. Hartzell, and A. Koch)

“Commonality in Liquidity: A Demand-Side Explanation,” (with A. Koch and S. Ruenzi)

“The Mutual Fund Industry Worldwide: Explicit and Closet Indexing, Fees, and Performance,” (with M.Cremers, M.Ferreira, and P. Matos) Inquire Europe 2011 Research Grant 2014 S&P Dow Jones Indices' SPIVA Awards Second Prize

“Reputation and Mutual Fund Choice” (with W. Gerken and M. Yates) “SRI Funds: Investor Demand, Exogenous Shocks and ESG Profiles” (with Jędrzej Białkowski)

“Advertising, Attention, and Acquisition Returns” (with Elizier Fich and Anh Tran)

“Who are the Sentiment Traders? Evidence from the Cross-section of Stock Returns and Demand (with L. DeVault and R. Sias)

“Advertising and Mutual Funds: From Families to Individual Funds” (with S. Gallaher and R. Kaniel) Winner of 2010 TCW Best Paper Award at the CICF meeting

“Headlines and Bottom Lines: Attention and Learning Effects in Media Coverage of Mutual Funds” (with R. Kaniel and V. Vasudevan)

“Evolution of Uncertainty: Changing Estimates of Market Beta” (with L. Bargeron, E. Goldman, and R. Kaniel)

“Explaining Corporate Governance: Boards, By-Laws and Charter Provisions,” (with S. Gillan and J. Hartzell)

“Risk, Dispersion of Analysts Forecasts and Stock Returns,” (with S. Qu and H. Yan)