Publications

1. Cross-Border Property Rights and the Globalization of Innovation, with Bo Bian and Jean-Marie Meier

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming

2. Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation, with Michael Ewens and Kairong Xiao

Journal of Financial Economics, 2024

Best Paper Award Utah Winter Finance Conference,  Best Paper Award CICF

3. Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups, with Shai Bernstein and Richard Townsend

Review of Financial Studies, 2024

4. Investor Tax Credits and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. States, with Matthew Denes, Sabrina Howell, Filippo Mezzanotti, and Xinxin Wang

Journal of Finance, 2023

Best Paper Award Mid-Atlantic Research Conference in Finance 

5. Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?, with Joshua Gottlieb and Richard Townsend

Review of Financial Studies, 2022

Lead Article & RFS Editor's Choice

6. Individualism During Crises, with Bo Bian, Jingjing Li, and Natasha Z. Foutz

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022

Best Paper Award INFORMS CIST 

7. Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Innovation, with Dale Griffin and Kai Li. (JFQA video)

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021

8. Do Excess Control Rights Benefit Creditors? Evidence from Dual-Class Firms

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021

9. Competition and Ownership Structure of Closely-Held Firms, with Jan Bena

Review of Financial Studies, 2017

Working papers

10. The Effect of Child Care Access on Women's Careers and Firm Performance, with Elena Simintzi and Sheng-Jun Xu

R&R, Journal of Finance

FOM Conference, AEA, EFA, FIRS, MFA, CICF, Colorado Finance Summit, Olin Corporate Finance Conference, Labor and Finance Group Conference, UBC Summer Finance Conference, CSEF-RCFS Conference on Finance, Labor and Inequality

11. Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (NBER WP No. 29847), with Shai Bernstein, Kunal Mehta, and Richard Townsend

NBER Entrepreneurship, WFA, FSU SunTrust Beach Conference, SFS Cavalcade, MFA, 3rd DC Juniors Finance Conference, CICF

12. Learning from the Crowd: The Feedback Value of Crowdfunding

AFA, EFA, USC CETAFE, IZA/Kauffman Entrepreneurship Workshop

Non-refereed publication

• Research: In Recessions, Employees Avoid Jobs with Startups, with Shai Bernstein and Richard Townsend

Harvard Business Review, 2023