LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
Stratakis Chair Professor in Corporate Governance: December 2021 – present
Academic Director Gupta Governance Institute: December 2021 – present
Cass Business School, City University of London
Interim Dean: June 2019 – December 2021
Vice Dean: January 2018 – May 2019
Head of the Faculty of Finance: May 2014 – December 2017
Professor of Finance: July 2013 – present
London Business School
Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure): July 2007 – June 2013
Assistant Professor of Finance: August 2000 – June 2007
PUBLISHED PAPERS
"Institutional Debt Holder Governance" with Aneel Keswani and Anh Tran, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (September 2021).
"Competition for Managers, Corporate Governance and Incentive Compensation" with Viral Acharya and Marc Gabarro, Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting (May 2021).
"Marking to Market and Inefficient Investment Decisions" with Clemens Otto, Management Science (August 2018).
"Employment Protection and Takeovers" with Olivier Dessaint and Andrey Golubov, Journal of Financial Economics (August 2017).
"Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent" with Viral Acharya and Marco Pagano, Review of Financial Studies (October 2016).
"Labor Protection and Leverage" with Elena Simintzi and Vikrant Vig, Review of Financial Studies (February 2015).
"Does Family Control Matter? International Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis" with Karl Lins and Hannes Wagner, Review of Financial Studies (October 2013).
"Corporate Pension Plans as Takeover Deterrents" with Joao Cocco, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (August 2013).
"Securitization, Disclosure and Liquidity" with Marco Pagano, Review of Financial Studies (August 2012).
"The Life-Cycle of Family Ownership" with Julian Franks, Colin Mayer and Hannes Wagner, Review of Financial Studies (June 2012).
"Credit Ratings Failures and Policy Options" with Marco Pagano, Economic Policy (April 2010).
"Corporate Governance Externalities" with Viral Acharya, Review of Finance, (January 2010).
"Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe” with Luca Enriques, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 2007).
"The Corporate Governance of Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Evidence from the United Kingdom" with Joao Cocco, Financial Analysts Journal (January 2007).
"Shareholder Protection, Stock Market Development, and Politics" with Marco Pagano, Journal of the European Economic Association (April 2006).
"The Political Economy of Corporate Governance" with Marco Pagano, American Economic Review (September 2005).
"Managers, Workers, and Corporate Control" with Marco Pagano, Journal of Finance (April 2005).
"Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions" with Stefano Rossi, Journal of Financial Economics (November 2004).
"Governance with Poor Investor Protection: Evidence from Top Executive Turnover in Italy" Journal of Financial Economics (April 2002).
"The Political Economy of Finance" with Marco Pagano, Oxford Review of Economic Policy (Winter 2001).
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Endogenous Political Institutions and Financial Development" with Thomas Lambert, in: Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine Eds., Handbook of Finance and Development, EE Elgar, 2018, 477–501.
"The governance motive in cross-border mergers and acquisitions" with Stefano Rossi, in: Greg Gregoriou and Luc Renneboog Eds., Corporate Governance and Regulatory Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions, 2007, Elsevier Finance, Academic Press, 43-70.
"The History of Corporate Ownership in Italy" with Alexander Aganin, in: Randall K. Morck Ed., The History of Corporate Governance Around the World, University of Chicago Press, 2005, 325-361.
"The Eclipse of the U.S. Tire Industry" with Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales, in: Steven Kaplan Ed., Merger and Productivity, University of Chicago Press, 2000, 51-86.