Sample publications

The Political Economy of Tariff Exemption Grants, with Veljko Fotak, Hye Seung (Grace) Lee, and William L. Megginson. Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.  FT Top50.

The Influence of Related Party Transactions on the Family Firms Valuation Premium, 2023, with Mark Kohlbeck, Hye Seung (Grace) Lee and Bryan Mayhew. Forthcoming in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. http://doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12682. 

Are Generalists Beneficial to Corporate Shareholders? Evidence from Exogenous Executive Turnovers, 2020, with Andre Betzer, Hye Seung (Grace) Lee and Peter Limbach. Forthcoming at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Vol 55 (2): 581-619. FT Top50.

Do investors care about director tenure? Insights from executive cognition and social capital theories, 2017, with Anne Anderson, Jill Brown, and Andrew Ward. Organization Science Vol. 28 (3), 2017: 471-494. In best paper proceedings for the 2013 Academy of Management Annual conference. FT Top50.

The Causal Effect of Option Pay on Corporate Risk Management, 2016, with Tor-Erik Bakke, Hamed Mahmudi, and Chitru Fernando. Journal of Financial Economics. Vol 120 (3): 623-643. FT Top50.

Governance, Conference Calls and CEO Compensation, 2015, with McKay S. Price and CF Sirmans, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. Vol 50 (2): 181-206.

Government Ownership and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the EU, 2012, with Ginka Borisova, Paul Brockman and Andrey Zagorchev, Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol 36 (11): 2917-2933.

Entrenchment, Governance, and the Stock Price Reaction to Sudden Executive Deaths, 2010, Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol 34 (3), pp 656-666.

Experience

Associate Professor, Lehigh University (2015 - Present)

Assistant Professor, Lehigh University (2008 – 2015)

Education:

PhD, University of Oklahoma

MA, Miami University of Ohio

BS, St. Mary’s University

Professional Service

FMA Annual Meeting Program Committee (2015-2024)

FMA European Meeting Program Committee (2015-2024)

FMA Asia Annual Meeting Program Committee (2010)

FMA Annual Meeting Paper Award Committee (2007 and 2009)

FMA Annual Meeting Dissertation Award Committee (2008)

Invited presentations at Villanova University, University of Wyoming and University of Delaware

Ad-hoc referee for Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Economics and Finance, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance,   Review of Financial Economics, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Journal of Economics and Business, the African Journal of Business Management and the Journal of Media Economics.

Professional meetings (presenter): American Finance Association, (2022, 2008), European Finance Association (2022, 2008), FMA Annual meeting (2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005) European meeting of FMA, (2006, 2007,  and 2012), Financial Management Association, Asian Finance Association (2011), Symposium on International Corporate Finance and Governance (2010), Finance and Governance Conference, Australia (2010), Multinational Finance Society (2024,2009), and several others.  

President of the Two Brothers Foundation Non-Profit Organization (2008-2017)