Working Papers
Pro-Debtor Bias, Court Shopping, and Bankruptcy Outcomes (with K. Boudt, F. Lopez-de-Silanes, and S. Zhang)
The Impact of Financial Regulation on Bank Risk and Performance: The Basel III Spillover Experiment (with K. Barbosa and A. Seingyai)
Contingent Fees to Contain Bank Runs (with R. Oostdam and E. Perotti)
Bank Liquidity Mismatch in the Reserve Cycle (with T. Eisenbach, E. Perotti, and S. Terovitis)
Papers Published or Accepted for Publication
Creditor Rights, Bank-client Relationships and Bank Power (with M. Ghitti and F. Lopez-de-Silanes), Management Science, Forthcoming.
Price Informativeness and Corporate Investment: A Model of Costly Manipulation and Share Repurchases (with M. Campello and P. Saffi), Management Science, Forthcoming.
Quantitative Easing, Investment, and Safe Assets: The Corporate-Bond Lending Channel (with E. Giambona. J. L. Peydro, and Ye Wang), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Forthcoming.
Predation by Stock Price Price Manipulation (with S. Rocha and P. Vaz), Journal of Corporate Finance 92, 2025, 102770.
Short Selling and Product Market Competition (with S. Rocha and P. Vaz), Journal of Banking and Finance 171, 2025, 107335.
Pay, Stay, or Delay? How to Settle a Run (with E. Perotti), Review of Financial Studies 37, 2024, 1368-1407.
Capital Structure and Reversible Bargaining Tools: Evidence from Union-Sponsored Shareholder Proposals (with A. Di Giuli and A. Petit-Romec), Journal of Banking and Finance 149, 2023, 106780.
Stiffing the Creditor: The effect of Asset Verifiability on Bankruptcy (with E. Giambona and F. Lopez-de-Silanes), Journal of Financial Intermediation 52, 2022, 100962.
Do internal capital markets in business groups mitigate firms financial constraints? (with R. Kabbach-Castro and G. Kirch), Journal of Banking and Finance 143, 2022, 106573.
Investment Risk, CDS Insurance, and Firm Financing (with M. Campello), European Economic Review 125, 2020, 103424.
Renegotiation Frictions and Financial Distress Resolution: Evidence from CDS Spreads (with M. Campello and T. Ladika), Review of Finance 23, 2019, 513-556.
Optimal Product Placement (with C. Hsu, S. Popov, and T. Sogo), Review of Industrial Organization 51, 2017, 127-145.
The Effect of Age at School Entry on College Admission and Earnings: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach (with B. Sampaio, R. Ribas, and G. Sampaio), IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5:9, 2016.
Credit Default Swaps and Risk-Shifting (with M. Campello), Economics Letters 117, 2012, 639-641.
A model of Local Crime Displacement (with M. Viegas), International Review of Law and Economics 31, 2011, 30-36.