Research

Google Scholar, SSRN Page

Publications:

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

(with Pavel Savor, Mahsa Kaviani) 

• Journal of Financial Economics, 183 (2026): 104333. 

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. 

When She Fails: Women Entrepreneurs and Gender Gaps in Business Bankruptcy  

with Simi Kedia, Mahsa Kaviani, Shay Pourvosoughi

• AEA Papers and Proceedings, Accepted (May 2027)

• Drexel's Gupta Center- Corporate Governance Conference 2026,  CEAR-RSI Household Finance Workshop 2026 (scheduled), FMA 2026 (scheduled), Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) at Northwestern (scheduled), American Economic Association (AEA) 2026 (scheduled), CFEA 2026 Toronto (scheduled).

• Media Coverage: Harvard Bankruptcy Roundtable, ProMarket: Chicago Booth Stigler Center's outlet, American Bankruptcy Institute,  Tampa Bay Business Journal, North Carolina Bankruptcy Expert, 9fin.com

Working Papers:

Media, Partisan Ideology, and Corporate Social Responsibility

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

• Revise & Resubmit, Review of Finance

(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 | Hawaii Accounting Research Conference (scheduled)

• Under Review

Attention Allocation and Price Discovery  [NEW]

with Zhi Da, Darius Palia, Cayman Seagraves

• RCF-ECGI 2026 (scheduled). 

Now You See Me: Broadband Internet and Corporate Goodness 

(with Cayman Seagraves)

[Draft Coming Soon]

Works in Progress:

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

Other Publications:

Media, Inventors, and Corporate Innovation 

• Journal of Empirical Finance, (2025): 101664 

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

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:

Recent:

• Harvard Bankruptcy Roundtable

• ProMarket: Chicago Booth Stigler Center's outlet

• American Bankruptcy Institute

• Tampa Bay Business Journal

• North Carolina Bankruptcy Expert

• 9fin.com

Older: 

• North Ca rolina Bankruptcy Expert

• 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.