Publications: 

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

with Todd Gormley, Hosein Maleki SSRN

• Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming

Bank Competition and Corporate Risk-Taking 

 with Sudipta Basu, Hosein Maleki  SSRN 

• • The Accounting Review (2025)

Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Credit Spreads 

with Pavel Savor, Lawrence Kryzanowski, Hosein Maleki)  SSRN

• • Journal of Financial Economics, December 2020

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

with Kose John,  Lawrence Kryzanowski, Hosein Maleki  SSRN

• • Review of Finance, April 2021

  • Media coverage: Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable

Working Papers:

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

with Pavel Savor, Hosein Maleki  SSRN 

• • Revise and resubmit, 2nd round,  Journal of Financial Economics

  • Media Coverage: University of Chicago, Stigler Center Promarket 

Media, Partisan Ideology, and Corporate Social Responsibility

with Hosein Maleki, Lily Li  SSRN 

• Political Economy of Finance Conference, Chicago Booth 2020 

• MARC Conference, Villanova 2020** 

• WAPFIN, NYU Stern 2020

• AFA 2022

Weathering Distress: Corporate Bankruptcy and Bank Competition

with Jess Corngaia, Hosein Maleki  SSRN (Newest version: 2021)

• •  Presented at: AFA 2018, EFA 2018 

Political Ideology and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from the Expansion of a Local TV Network

      with Yuqi Gu, Lily Li, Hosein Maleki, Connie Mao SSRN 

Works in Progress:

Personal Bankruptcy and the Spirit of Limited Liability

with Sabrina Howell, Hosein Maleki 

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