• Bank as Stewards (with Kristian Blickle and Parinitha Sastry) [Please email me for a copy of the draft]

• Auto Finance in the Electric Vehicle Transition  (with Elizabeth Klee and Chaehee Shin)

• Roy Sorting: Climate and Status Quo Strategies (with Thomas Cauthorn, Samuel Drempetic, Andreas G.F. Hoepner, and Christian Klein)

• When Cryptomining Comes to Town: High Electricity-Use Spillovers to the Local Economy (with Matteo Benetton and  Giovanni Compiani)

Publications

• The Economics of Net Zero Banking (with Parinitha Sastry)  Prepared to be forthcoming 2025, Annual Review of Financial Economics

• How Pervasive is Corporate Fraud? (with Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales)
  Review of Accounting Studies, 2024, Vol. 29, pp 736–769   WSJ article covering this paper.

• Venture Debt.  In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity. Editors Douglas Cumming, and Benjamin Hammer. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024

• Outrage and Compensation in Public Pension Performance (with Alexander Dyck and Paulo Manoel)
        Review of Financial Studies, 2022.  Online appendix.

• What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity During the Pandemic? (with Brad M. Barber, Wei Jiang, Manju Puri, Heather Tookes, and Ingrid M. Werner)  Journal of Finance, 2021

• Algorithmic Accountability: A Legal and Economic Framework (with Robert Bartlett, Richard Stanton, and Nancy Wallace) Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2021

• Impact Investing (with Brad Barber and Ayako Yasuda), Journal of Financial Economics, 2021, Vol. 139 (1):  p. 162-185
  Winner, Moskowitz Prize 2016

• Consumer Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era (with Robert Bartlett, Richard Stanton, and Nancy Wallace Journal of Financial Economics, 2022.
        Winner, FMA-Wine Country Conference, Best Paper

• Small Business Survival Capabilities and Policy Effectiveness: Evidence from Oakland [with Robert Bartlett]
      Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Special Issue on COVID Research,   Volume 56 / Issue 7 / 2021, pp. 2500-2544

• Discrimination (with Karen Pence), Palgrave-MacMillan Handbook of Technological Finance, 2021

• Asset Managers: Factor Investing and Performance (with Joseph Gerakos and Juhani Linnainmaa), Journal of Finance, 2021

• Stock Returns over the FOMC Cycle (with Anna Cieslak and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen), Journal of Finance, 2019, Vol 74 (5), p. 2201-2248
  Winner, Best Paper, Sonoran Finance Conference 2015
  WSJ article covering this paper.

• Executive Lawyers: Gatekeepers or Strategic Officers (with Wei Wang and Serena Wu), Journal of Law and Economics, 2016, Vol 59, p. 847-888
  Winner, Best Paper, China International Conference in Finance 2015
  Data on Executive Lawyers & General Counsel

• Trickle-Down Consumption (with Marianne Bertrand), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, Vol. 98 (5), p. 863-879.
  Economist article covering this paper. (Also see media tab)

• Measuring Income Tax Evasion using Bank Credit: Evidence from Greece (with Nikolaos Artavanis and Margarita Tsoutsoura), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, Vol. 131(2), p. 739-798.
  Winner, WFA/WRDS Prize for Best Empirical Finance Paper 2013
  Economist article covering this paper.

• Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding: Information and the Potential for Disruption in Consumer Lending?,
  Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2015, Vol. 7, p. 463-482.

• Compensation Rigging by Powerful CEOs: A Reply and Cross-Sectional Evidence (with Vikram Nanda and Amit Seru), Critical Finance Review, 2013, Vol. 3 (1).

• Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing (with Marianne Bertrand), Journal of Finance, December 2011, 66(6), pp. 1865-1893. Lead Article.
  Brattle Prize Winner for best paper in corporate finance in the Journal of Finance, 2012.
  State of Texas implementation of disclosure rules with our design
  Province of Ontario implementation of disclosure rules with our design

• Payday Lenders: Heroes or Villains? Journal of Financial Economics, October 2011, 102(1), pp. 28-44.

• Are Incentive Contracts Rigged by Powerful CEOs? (with Vikram Nanda and Amit Seru), Journal of Finance, October 2011, 66(5), pp. 1779-1821.
  Data: Power Measures for Companies

• Discussion of 'Financially Fragile Households' by A. Lusardi & P. Tufano, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2011

• Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud? (with Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales), Journal of Finance, December 2010, 65(6), pp. 2213-2253.
  See Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act for implementation of our main finding
  concerning whistleblowing and money incentives here.
  Data: Summaries of [Alleged] Corporate Fraud Cases and Cases & Dates

• Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge? (with E. Han Kim and Luigi Zingales), Journal of Financial Economics, September 2009, 93(3), pp. 353-381. Lead Article.
  2nd Prize Winner of the Jensen Prize for the best paper in corporate finance
  and organizations for the Journal of Financial Economics, 2009

• Patriotism in Your Portfolio? (with Sophie Shive), Journal of Financial Markets, May 2010, 14(2), pp. 411-440

• What do High-Interest Borrowers do with their Tax Rebates? (with Marianne Bertrand), American Economic Review Papers & Procedings, May 2009, 99(2), pp. 418-429

• What Has Mattered To Economics Since 1970? (with E. Han Kim and Luigi Zingales) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006, Vol. 20(4), p. 189-202.

Other Working Papers