Research Interests

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

  Working paper: Economic links and the Propagation of Biased Forecasts (with F. Peters).

• Presented at: AFA, EFA, Miami Behavioral Finance

   Working paper: The (un-)intended consequences of a ban of commission-based financial advice (with T. Spickers)

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

• Journal of Finance, forthcoming.

• 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]

 Shareholder Governance and CEO Compensation: The Peer Effects of Say on Pay (with D.K. Denis and A. Rajamani)

• • Review of Financial Studies 33 (7)

  • Presentations: Drexel Corporate Governance; EFA and others.

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

 The Retention Effects of Unvested Equity: Evidence from Accelerated Option Vesting (with T. Ladika and Z. Sautner)

• • Review of Financial Studies 31 (11) 

  • Presentations: WFA; EFA and others.

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

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

• Research Policy 52 (1)

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

• Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 197 

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

  Establishing Local Government in Fragile States: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (with I. Murtazashvili and J. Murtazashvili)

• World Development 77 (1)

  Can the Design of Electoral Institutions Improve Perceptions of Democracy in Fragile States? Evidence from Afghanistan (with I. Murtazashvili and J. Murtazashvili)

• Journal of Global Security Studies 5 (3)

  Social Identify and Voting in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (with I. Murtazashvili and J. Murtazashvili)

• Journal of Experimental Political Science 2 (1)

 Permanent working papers

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

• Geographic Diversification and Bank Stability: New Evidence from Topographic Variation