Published and Forthcoming Papers
Valuing Changes in Political Networks: Evidence from Campaign Contributions to Close Congressional Elections, 2015, Review of Financial Studies, 28:3188-223
2016 RFS Rising Scholar Award
2013 USC Finance PhD Conference Best Paper Award
Politicizing Consumer Credit, Journal of Financial Economics, 2021, 139:627-655, with Stefan Lewellen and Rawley Heimer
The Limits of Limited Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution, 2021, Journal of Finance, 76:5--55, with Ian Appel
Lead article
2019 Brattle Group Prize in Corporate Finance: Distinguished Paper
Price Revelation from Insider Trading: Evidence from Hacked Earnings News, 2022, Journal of Financial Economics, 143:3 1162--1184, with Vincent Gregoire and Charles Martineau
Media Coverage: Bloomberg
Hacking Corporate Reputations, with Stefan Lewellen, Inessa Liskovich and Christoph Schiller
Conditionally accepted at Review of Finance
Working Papers
Politics and Finance: A Review of the Literature (with Nandini Gupta and Stefan Lewellen) in preparation for ARFE
Do Government Policies Undermine Private Climate Initiatives? Evidence from the EU Emission Trading System (with Ian Appel, Aymeric Bellon, and Johannes Klausmann)
Policy Uncertainty, Political Capital, and Firm Risk-Taking, with Stefan Lewellen
Revise and Resubmit at RFS
Media Coverage: The Economist
Noisy Factors with Adriana Roberson and Mikhail Simutin
Invited for resubmission at JFQA
Media Coverage: Financial Times, Bloomberg
The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital: Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC, with Tania Babina, Greg Buchak, and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
Closet Active Management of Passive Funds with Adriana Roberson and Mikhail Simutin
Environmental Externalities of Activism, with Ian Appel
Pushing Boundaries: Political Redistricting and Consumer Credit, with Christine Dobridge, Rawley Heimer, and Stefan Lewellen
Media Coverage: NPR, Forbes
Non-Refereed Published and Forthcoming Papers
Noisy Factors in Law, University of Chicago Law Review, forthcoming, with Adriana Roberson and Mikhail Simutin