Simon Mayer

Publications

Review of Finance, conditionally accepted

Review of Financial Studies, conditionally accepted

Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Journal of Financial Economics (2025), 168: 10455

Review of Economic Studies (2025): rdaf009

Review of Financial Studies (2024), 37: 2403-2460

Journal of Finance (2023): 78: 2779-2836

Journal of Financial Economics (2022), 144: 807-848

Journal of Financial Economics (2021), 142: 1038-1067

Journal of Financial Economics (2020), 163: 718-742

Under Revision

Journal of Financial Economics, Revise and Resubmit

Working Papers

Simon Mayer

Publications

Under Revision

Working Papers

Review Papers

Older and Subsumed Working Papers

Simon Mayer

I am an Associate Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, where I hold the Carnegie Bosch Junior Chair. I received my PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2021. I am an Associate Editor at Management Science and a research affiliate at CEPR.

You can find my CV here and my Google Scholar here.

Email: simonmay@andrew.cmu.edu

Publications

10. The Economics of Data Unions: Optimal Data Sharing and Coordination (with Will Cong)

9. How Private Equity Fuels Non-Bank Lending (with S. Haque and Teng Wang)

8. Investor Activism and the Green Transition (with S. Gryglewicz and E. Morellec)

7. Strategic Digitization in Currency and Payment Competition (with Will Cong)

6. A Theory of Cash Flow-Based Financing with Distress Resolution (w. B. Hartman-Glaser and K. Milbradt)

5. The Dynamics of Loan Sales and Lender Incentives (with S. Gryglewicz and E. Morellec)

4. Dynamic Contracting with Intermediation: Operational, Governance, and Financial Engineering (with S. Gryglewicz)

3. Financing Breakthroughs under Failure Risk

2. Optimal Financing with Tokens (with S. Gryglewicz and E. Morellec)

1. Agency Conflicts and Short- Vs. Long-Termism in Corporate Policies (with S. Gryglewicz and E. Morellec)

Under Revision

Private Debt versus Bank Debt in Corporate Borrowing (with Sharjil Haque and Irina Stefanescu)

Working Papers

Financial Intermediation with Fragile Seigniorage: A Dynamic Model of Stablecoin Issuers (with Ye Li)

Private Equity Continuation Vehicles: A Model of Strategic Asset Transfers (with V. Ivashina and L. Phalippou)

Ownership Dynamics and Firm Policies with a Large Shareholder (with S. Gryglewicz and E. Morellec)

How Equity Financing Relaxes Borrowing Constraints: Evidence from Private Equity (with S. Haque and YS Jang)

Tokenizing Real-World Assets (with Will Cong and Daniel Rabetti)

Review Papers

Capital Structure in Private Equity (with YS Jang)

Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity (forthcoming)

Older and Subsumed Working Papers

PE for the Public: The Rise of SPACs (with S. Gryglewicz and B. Hartman-Glaser)

Token-Based Platforms and Speculators

Corporate Liquidity Management under Moral Hazard (with B. Hartman-Glaser and K. Milbradt)

Antitrust, Regulation, and User Union in the Era of Digital Platforms and Big Data (with Will Cong)