Research
Publications:
Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Credit Spreads
(with Mahsa Kaviani, Lawrence Kryzanowski, Pavel Savor)
Journal of Financial Economics, 138.3 (2020): 838-865.
Do Country-level Creditor Protections Affect Firm-level Debt Structure?
(with Kose John, Mahsa Kaviani and Lawrence Kryzanowski)
Review of Finance, 2021, 25.6 (2021): 1677-1725.
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 2023 (scheduled)
When do Judges Throw the Book at Companies? The Influence of Partisanship in Corporate Prosecutions
Previously distributed as: "Are Judges Like Umpires? Political Affiliation and Corporate Prosecutions"
(with Todd Gormley, Mahsa Kaviani)
Revise and Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies
NBER- Corporate Finance | NBER- Law and Economics | FSU SunTrust Conference** | AFA | SFS Cavalcade
Media Coverage: Duke Law School, LexisNexis Law360
Bank Entry Barriers and Firms' Risk Taking
(With Sudipta Basu, Mahsa Kaviani)
Revise and Resubmit, The Accounting Review
Hawaii Accounting Research Conference | British Accounting and Finance Association | FMA | EFA | NFA
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
Media Coverage: National Affairs, Boston Globe, CorpGov
Political Ideology, Inventor Mobility, and Corporate Innovation
(Previously distributed as: Political Ideology and Corporate Innovation, Evidence from the Expansion of a Local TV Network)
(with Yuqi Gu, Mahsa Kaviani, Lily Li, and Connie Mao)
FMA | Australasian Finance and Banking Conference
Media Coverage: National Affairs
Weathering Distress: Corporate Bankruptcy and Bank Competition
(with Jess Cornaggia, Mahsa Kaviani)
AFA | EFA
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
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
Legitimizing Compensations
With Todd Gormley
Loud, Flat, Crowded: On Firms’ Information Environment
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.