Research Interests

Corporate governance and executive compensation; Corporate finance; Cross-disciplinary governance topics

   1.  Shareholder Governance and CEO Compensation: The Peer Effects of Say on Pay

• • Review of Financial Studies 33 (7), Jul 2020, pp. 3130-3173

  • Joint with D. K. Denis and A. Rajamani

  • Presentations: Drexel Corporate Governance; EFA and others.

  • Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation [Link]

   2.  The Retention Effects of Unvested Equity: Evidence from Accelerated Option Vesting

• • Review of Financial Studies 31 (11), Nov 2018, pp. 4142–4186

  • Joint with T. Ladika and Z. Sautner

  • Presentations: WFA; EFA and others.

  • Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation [Link]

  3.  Why have CEO Pay Levels Become Less Diverse? (with G. Ormazabal and A. Rajamani )

• Revise & Resubmit, The Journal of Finance

• Presentations: AFA; AAA; SFS Cavalcade North America; Drexel Corporate Governance Early Session Ideas and others.

• Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation [Link]

• Featured in Duke's FinReg blog on Financial Regulation [Link]

  4.  Bias Propagation in Economically Linked Firms (with F. Peters).

• Presented at: AFA, EFA, Miami Behavioral Finance

  5.  Why don't we talk about it? Communication and Coordination in Teams  (with J. Dietrichson and J. Gudmundsson)

• Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 197, May 2022, pp. 257-278

• Additional resources: Online Appendix and Simulation code (python file)

  6.  Standing of Shoulders of Giants: How Star Scientists Influence their Co-Authors  (with N. Betancout and S. Otner).

• Research Policy [FT50 journal], 52 (1), January 2023.

  7.  Can the Design of Electoral Institutions Improve Perceptions of Democracy in Fragile States? Evidence from Afghanistan

• Journal of Global Security Studies 5 (3), Jul 2020, pp. 443–462

• Joint with I. Murtazashvili and J. Murtazashvili

  8.  Establishing Local Government in Fragile States: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

• World Development 77 (1), Jan 2016, pp. 293-310. 

• Joint with I. Murtazashvili, J. Murtazashvili

   9.  Social Identify and Voting in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

• Journal of Experimental Political Science 2 (1), Spring 2015, pp. 47-62. 

• Joint with I. Murtazashvili, J. Murtazashivili

   10.  Does Proxy Access Increase Shareholder Wealth? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.  

   11.  Geographic Diversification and Bank Stability: New Evidence from Topographic Variation.