Journal and Conference Volume Publications

IPOs, Human Capital, and Labor Reallocation (with Tania Babina and Paige Ouimet), 2024, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, conditionally accepted.

When Does Higher Firm Leverage Lead to Higher Employee Pay? (with Tim Dore), 2023, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 12(1), 36–77 .

Acquiring Labor (with Paige Ouimet), 2020, Quarterly Journal of Finance, vol. 10, no. 3, (September).

Large-Scale Buy-to-Rent Investors in the Single-Family Housing Market: The Emergence of a New Asset Class? (with Raven Molloy and James Mills), 2019, Real Estate Economics, 47, 399-430.  

CEO's Age and the Performance of Closely Held Firms (with Sharon Belenzon and Anastasiya Shamshur), 2019, Strategic Management Journal, 40, 917-944. 

How Did Young Firms Fare During the Great Recession? Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey (with Tiantian Yang), 2017, in Haltiwanger, John, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar eds.,Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges. NBER and University of Chicago Press.

Married to the Firm? A Large-Scale Investigation of the Social Context of Ownership (with Sharon Belenzon and Andrea Patacconi), 2016, Strategic Management Journal, 37, 2611-2638.

Who Works for Startups? The Relation between Firm Age, Employee Age and Growth, (with Paige Ouimet), 2014, Journal of Financial Economics, 112, 386-407. 

Competition, Financial Innovation, and Commercial Bank Loan Portfolios, 2013, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 22, 373-396.

On the Lifecycle Dynamics of Venture-Capital- and Non-Venture-Capital-Financed Firms (with Manju Puri), 2012, Journal of Finance, 67, 2243-2297. 

The Role of Top Management Team Human Capital in Venture Capital Markets: Evidence from First-time Funds, 2010 Journal of Business Venturing, 25, 155-172. 

Evidence on the Tradeoff between Risk and Return for IPO and SEO Firms (with A. Brav, R. Michaely and M. Roberts), 2009 Financial Management, Summer, 221-252. 

Competition and Specialization in Credit Markets, 2009, in Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, pp. 183-201.

Evidence on the Effects of Bank Competition on Firm Borrowing and Investment, 2006, Journal of Financial Economics, 81, 503-537. 

Does Bank Competition Affect how Much Firms can Borrow? New Evidence from the U.S., 2003,  in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition,  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, pp. 121-136,