Research

Published or Forthcoming Papers

Polarization, Purpose, and Profit (joint with Daniel Ferreira), Journal of Financial Economics, October 2025, vol. 172, 104147 

Prestige, Promotion and Pay (joint with Daniel Ferreira), Journal of Finance, February 2024, vol. 79, issue 1

Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Corporate Capture of Blockchain Governance (joint with Daniel Ferreira and Jin Li), Review of Financial Studies, April 2023, vol: 36, issue 4

Coverage: American Enterprise Institute blog post; Oxford Business Law blog; LSE Business Review entry; Governance and the Crypto Winter (ECGI blog)

Talent Discovery and Poaching under Asymmetric Information (joint with Daniel Ferreira), Economic Journal, January 2023, vol: 133 (featured article)

Motivate and Select: Relational Contracts with Persistent Types, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Fall 2017, vol 26.3

Career Dynamics and Span of Control, Economics Letters, March 2015, vol. 128

Developing New Ideas: Spin-outs, Spinoffs or Internal Divisions, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, February 2014, vol. 98

Supply of Skilled Labour and Organizational Change, Labour Economics, June 2010, vol. 17(3)

Mutual Monitoring versus Incentive pay in Teams, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2009, vol. 93/94

Working Papers

Biased Promotions, joint with Daniel Ferreira and Elena Pikulina

Coverage: HKU Jockey Club Research Blog