Research

Google Scholar, SSRN Page

Publications:

When do Judges Throw the Book at Companies? The Influence of Partisanship in Corporate Prosecutions

(With Todd Gormley, Mahsa Kaviani)

• Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming

Bank Entry Barriers and Firms' Risk Taking

(With Sudipta Basu, Mahsa Kaviani)

• The Accounting Review (2025) 100 (1): 55–85. 

Do Country-level Creditor Protections Affect Firm-level Debt Structure?

(with Kose John, Mahsa Kaviani and Lawrence Kryzanowski) 

• Review of Finance, 25.6 (2021): 1677-1725. 

Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Credit Spreads

(with Mahsa Kaviani, Lawrence  Kryzanowski, Pavel Savor) 

• Journal of Financial Economics, 138.3 (2020): 838-865. 

Working Papers:

Reaching for Influence: Do Banks Use Loans to Establish Political Connections? 

(with Pavel Savor, Mahsa Kaviani) 

• Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics

• Media Coverage: Stigler Center ProMarket

• Workshop on Banking Institutions, Bank of Finland | AFA 

Media, Inventors, and Corporate Innovation 

(Previously distributed as: Political Ideology, Inventor Mobility, and Corporate Innovation) 

• Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Empirical Finance

(with Yuqi Gu, Mahsa Kaviani, Lily Li, and Connie Mao)

FMA | Australasian Finance and Banking Conference | SFA | Philly Five 

Media Coverage: National Affairs

Media, Partisan Ideology, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Previously distributed as: "Conservative TV and Corporate Social Responsibility"

(with Mahsa Kaviani, Lily Li, Pavel Savor) 

• Political Economy of Finance Conference, Chicago Booth | MARC Conference, Villanova | WAPFIN Conference, NYU Stern | Midwest Finance Assoc. | American Finance Association | Development Bank of Japan Conference on CSR, the Economy and Financial Markets | ICGS | Northern Finance Association.

• Media Coverage: National Affairs, Boston Globe, CorpGov

Weathering Distress: Corporate Bankruptcy and Bank Competition

(with Sudipta Basu, Jess Cornaggia, Mahsa Kaviani) 

•  AFA | EFA 

Now You See Me: Broadband Internet and Corporate Goodness 

(with Todd Gormley, Cayman Seagraves)

[Draft Coming Soon]

When She Fails: Gender Bias in Business Bankruptcies

with Simi Kedia, Mahsa Kaviani, Shay Pourvosoughi

[Draft Coming Soon]

Works in Progress:

Information Availability and Price Efficiency

with Darius Palia, Cayman Seagraves

Personal Bankruptcy and the Spirit of Limited Liability

with Sabrina Howell, Mahsa Kaviani, Ben Iverson, Ammon Lam

Judges and Corporate Misconduct

with April Knill, Fred Kindelsperger

Information Environment and Price Efficiency

with Darius Palia and Cayman Seagraves

Permanent Working Papers:

Episodic Stability in Capital Structure: The Role of Access to Credit 

(with Jess Cornaggia, Mahsa Kaviani, Lawrence Kryzanowski) 

• Best paper award in Corporate Finance, FMA, semi-finalist 

Select Op-Eds, Books, Media:

The Boston Globe [Link]

Harvard Bankruptcy Law Roundtable, Coverage [Link]

University of Chicago's Stigler Center (ProMarket) [Link]

Project Syndicate, Commentary [Link]

Duke Law School [Link]

LexisNexis Law360 [Link]

Legal Theory Blog [Link]

CNBC World, Interview [Link]

Options: Concepts and Applications, Book (with M. Doaei), Ahang Ghalam Pub. 2010

** Conferences that got cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.