Research Interests
Research Interests
Corporate governance and executive compensation; Corporate finance; Cross-disciplinary governance topics
Corporate governance and executive compensation; Corporate finance; Cross-disciplinary governance topics
Bias Propagation in Economically Linked Firms (with F. Peters).
[July 2025: Update forthcoming]
Presented at: AFA, EFA, Miami Behavioral Finance
Why have CEO Pay Levels Become Less Diverse? (with G. Ormazabal and A. Rajamani )
Forthcoming, 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]
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]
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]
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.
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)
Journal of Global Security Studies 5 (3), Jul 2020, pp. 443–462
Joint with I. Murtazashvili and J. Murtazashvili
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
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
Does Proxy Access Increase Shareholder Wealth? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Geographic Diversification and Bank Stability: New Evidence from Topographic Variation.