Research
Does Informal Governance Matter to Institutional Investors? Evidence from Social Capital (with Chenguang Shang), 2024, Financial Review 59, 433-457. (Online Appendix)
Societal Impact Seed Grant Award, 2023 HCBE/NSU
Options Trading Imbalance, Cash-Flow News, and Discount-Rate News (with Doina Chichernea, Alex Petkevich, and Pavel Teterin), 2024, Journal of Empirical Finance 77, 101491. (Internet Appendix B)
Climate Risk, ESG Performance, and ESG Sentiment in US Commercial Banks (with Otgo Erhemjamts and Hassan Tehranian), 2024, Global Finance Journal 59, 100924. (Online Appendix)
Semi-finalist for Best Paper Award, FMA 2022
Working Hard for Long-Distance Relationships: Geographic Proximity and Relationship-Specific Investments (with Chenguang Shang and Chi Zhang), 2021, Financial Management 50, 985-1011. (Online Appendix)
Does Maturity Matter? The Case of Treasury Futures Volume (with Doina Chichernea and Alex Petkevich), 2019, Journal of Futures Markets 39, 1301-1321.
Institutional Ownership Horizon, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Shareholder Value (with Otgo Erhemjamts), 2019, Journal of Business Research 105, 61-79.
Semi-finalist for Best Paper Award, FMA 2017
Leverage, Debt Maturity, and Social Capital (with Chenguang Shang), 2019, Journal of Corporate Finance 54, 26-46.
Who Reacts to News? (with Doina Chichernea, Collin Gilstrap, and Alex Petkevich), 2019, Quarterly Journal of Finance 9, 1940002/1-43.
Best Paper Award in Investments, SWFA/FBD 2018
The Dynamics of Borrower Reputation Following Financial Misreporting (with Sudheer Chava and Shane Johnson), 2018, Management Science 64, 4775-4797. (Online Appendix)
Featured in Sustainable Business Insights: Research Briefs for Practitioners, 2018, Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
Investment Horizons and Information (with Alex Petkevich), 2016, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 43, 1017-1056.
Corporate Bond Pricing and Ownership Heterogeneity (with Alex Petkevich), 2016, Journal of Corporate Finance 36, 54-74.
Fueling Regional Economic Prosperity: The Role of P2P Lending in Micro-Firms and Small Businesses (with PK Maskara; revise and resubmit)
Does Geopolitical Risk Affect Firms' Leasing Policy? (with Chenguang Shang; revise and resubmit)
Societal Impact Seed Grant Award, 2023 HCBE/NSU
The Interplay of Credit Scores and ESG Ratings on Cash Holdings (with Panagiotis Asimakopoulos and Stylianos Asimakopoulos; under review)
Can Shareholder-Creditor Conflicts Explain Weak Governance? Evidence from the Value of Cash Holdings (with Neal Galpin)
EFMA Annual Meeting, 2023 (Cardiff, Wales, UK)
FMA European Conference, 2023 (two papers accepted; Aalborg, Denmark), 2022 (Lyon, France), 2018 (Kristiansand, Norway), 2017 (Lisbon, Portugal), 2015 (Venice, Italy)
FMA Annual Meeting, 2023 (Chicago, IL), 2022 (Atlanta, GA), 2020 (New York, NY; event held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic), 2018 (three papers accepted; San Diego, CA), 2017 (Boston, MA), 2014 (Nashville, TN)
FactSet Truvalue Labs Academic Roundtable, 2022 (virtual)
SFA Annual Meeting, 2022 (Key West, FL), 2018 (Asheville, NC), 2013 (Fajardo, PR)
DBJ Conference on CSR, the Economy, and Financial Markets, 2021 (Tokyo, Japan; hybrid event due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
EFA Annual Meeting, 2020 (Boston, MA; event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), 2019 (two papers accepted; Miami, FL), 2018 (Philadelphia, PA), 2012 (Boston, MA)
MFA Annual Meeting, 2018 (San Antonio, TX)
NFA Annual Meeting, 2018 (Charlevoix, Canada), 2014 (Ottawa, Canada)
SWFA Annual Meeting / Federation of Business Disciplines, 2018 (two papers accepted; Albuquerque, NM), 2015 (Houston, TX)
University of Denver Research Colloquium: 2018
Boston Area Finance Symposium (BAFS), 2016 (Lowell, MA), 2013 (Wellesley, MA), 2012 (Boston, MA)
IESE International Symposium on Ethics, Business, and Society, 2016 (Barcelona, Spain)
Texas Lone Star Conference, 2009 (Lubbock, TX)
Two Essays in Corporate Finance, 2011, Texas A&M University