Publications: 

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

with Pavel Savor, Hosein Maleki  

• •  Journal of Financial Economics, Accepted

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

with Todd Gormley, Hosein Maleki 

• Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming

Bank Entry Barriers and Firms' Risk-Taking 

 with Sudipta Basu, Hosein Maleki  

• • The Accounting Review (2025)

Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Credit Spreads 

with Pavel Savor, Lawrence Kryzanowski, Hosein Maleki) 

• • Journal of Financial Economics, December 2020

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

with Kose John,  Lawrence Kryzanowski, Hosein Maleki

• • Review of Finance, April 2021

  • Media coverage: Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable

Media, Inventors, and Corporate Innovation

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

• • Journal of Empirical Finance (2025)

Working Papers:

Media, Partisan Ideology, and Corporate Social Responsibility

with Hosein Maleki, Lily Li  

• 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  

• •  Presented at: AFA 2018, EFA 2018 

When She Fails: Women Entrepreneurs and Gender Bias in Business Bankruptcies

with Simi Kedia, Hosein Maleki, Shay Pourvosoughi 

Works in Progress:

Personal Bankruptcy and the Spirit of Limited Liability

with Sabrina Howell, Benjamin Iverson, Ammon Lam, Hosein Maleki 

Political Ideology and Mutual Fund Holdings

with Lily Li, Yiwen Li       

Bankruptcy Lawyers and Filing Firms

with Cayman Seagraves