Publications
Redeploying Dirty Assets: The Impact of Environmental Liability Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 170, August 2025, 104070
LeBow College of Business - John J. Clark Outstanding PhD Research Award
The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Award - Eastern FA
FMCG Ph.D. Best Paper Award
Regulatory Similarity (with Joseph Kalmenovitz) - Journal of Law and Economics, 67(3), August 2024, Pages 691-730 [Data]
Working Papers
The Deep State and the Liberal Drift of Financial Regulators (with Joseph Kalmenovitz and Denis Sosyura)
Invited for submission to the Journal of Financial Economics (via FRA dual submission)
Presentations: Auburn University (2025); World Finance & Banking Sumposium (2025)
Escaping Pay-for-Performance (with Jakub Hajda and Joseph Kalmenovitz)
Best Paper Award- Wellington Finance Summit
Seminfinalist For Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance- FMA 2024 Annual Meeting
Finalist for Best Paper Award - NFA 2025
Presentations: AFA (2026); Finance, Organizations and Markets Conference at USC (2025); NFA (2025); 7th Erasmus Corporate Governance Conference (2025); Drexel Corporate Governance Conference (2025); SGF (2025)*; MFA (2025); EasternFA (2025)*; FMA Annual Meeting (2024); Annual Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (2024); International Corporate Governane Society Conference (2024); University of Pennylvania (Regulation & Governance) (2024)*; Southern Finance Association (2024); Wellington Finance Summit (2024); Annual Global Finance Conference (2024)*; Auburn University (2024); Hebrew University (2024)*; National Tawian University (2024); National Cheng-chi University (2024); Queen's University (2024)*
Escaping Non-Compete Agreements: The Role of Social Connections (with Melissa Crumling and Torin McFarland)
Presentations: Columbia PE Conference PhD Workshop (2024)*, Southern Finance Association (2024)*; American Law and Economics Association Roundtable (2024)*, Eastern Finance Association (2024); Issues in Financial Markets and Banking (2024); FMA Annual Meeting (2023); WEFI Fellows Workshop (2023)*; Drexel University Brownbag (2023)*
Bias at the Top: How Interlocked Boards Shape CEO Evaluations Through Cognitive Shortcuts (with Ran Duchin and Eli Fich)
Presentations: MFA (2025); CICF (2024); FMA Annual Meeting (2024); International Corporate Governane Society Conference (2024); Research in Behavioral Finance Conference (2024); AsianFA (2024); UNLV (2024)*; George Mason (2024)*; Virgina Tech (2024)*; Bayes Business School- City University of London (2024)*; University of Bath (2024)*; NHH Norwegian School of Economics (2024)*; New Hampshire (2023)*; Baruch (2023)*
The Environmental Consequences of Pay Inequality (with Joseph Kalmenovitz)
FMCG Runner-up Paper Award
Presentations: Midwest Finance Association (2022), Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (2022), Eastern FA (2022), FMA (2021)*, Conference on CSR, the Economy and Financial Markets (2021), New Zealand Finance Meeting (2021), FMCG (2021)*, University of Mannheim (2021)*, Indian Finance Conference (2021)