Education
Ph.D. Finance, Pennsylvania State University
M.B.A., Vanderbilt University
M.A. Political Science, American University of Armenia

Publications
1. "Are busy boards detrimental",  with Laura Field and Michelle Lowry, 2013, Journal of Financial Economics 109, 63-82.

2. "The effect of director experience on acquisition performance", with Laura Field, 2017, Journal of Financial Economics 123, 488-511.

3. "Recruiting the CEO from the board: Determinants and consequences", with Udi Hoitash, 2018, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 53, 1261-1295.

4. "Internal governance and outside directors' connections to non-director executives," with Udi Hoitash, 2022, Journal of Accounting & Economics 73, 101436.

5. "Bond liquidity and firm investment," with Laura Field and Yuan Wang, 2022, Journal of Banking & Finance 145, 106651.

6. "What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data," with John Bai, 2023, Journal of Financial Economics 147, 27-48.

7. "CEO activism and firm value," with Jason Sandvik and Zhiwei Zhu, 2023, Management Science, Forthcoming.

8. "Employee responses to CEO activism," with Jason Sandvik and Da Xu, 2024, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Forthcoming.