Research

Refereed Publications:

• The Option to Quit: The Effect of Employee Stock Options on Turnover (with Paige Ouimet and Ed Van Wesep)

  • Journal of Financial Economics 127, 136 - 151, 2018. 

  • Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, 2018

• Private Equity in the Global Economy: Evidence on Industry Spillovers (with Greg W. Brown)

  • Journal of Corporate Finance 60, 2020.

  • Featured in Private Equity Findings by Coller Research Institute, 2020

• Determinants of International Buyout Investments (with Greg Brown and Asli Demirguc-Kunt)

  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 58, 2023.

  • Featured in Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog, 2020

  • Featured in Duke Law School's FinReg Blog, 2020

• The Effect of Venture Capital on Innovation at Newly Public Firms (with Ugur Celikyurt)

  • Journal  of Empirical Finance, forthcoming, 2023.

Working Papers:

• Persistence of Innovation around Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from NonVC-Backed IPOs (with Ugur Celikyurt)

• Boosting Employees or Earnings? BBSO plans before and after FAS123(R)

Work-in-Progress:

• The Regulatory Regimes that Benefit Private Equity (with Greg Brown)

• Lead Directors and Board Dynamics (with Ugur Celikyurt)

• Pre-IPO Valuation Disclosure and Underpricing (with Derek Horstmeyer)

• Is U.S. Regulation Pushing Medical Innovation Abroad? (with Greg Brown and David Robinson)

• Does Private Equity Hurt or Help the Economy? (with Greg Brown)