Contact Information
Office:
CBA 6.248
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
512-739-0095
Address:
McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
2110 Speedway Stop - B6600
Austin, TX 78712
Curriculum Vitae
Published & accepted papers
Credit Ratings: Strategic Issuer Disclosure and Optimal Screening
(with Uday Rajan and Günter Strobl)
Review of Finance
, conditionally accepted June 2024
Quasi-insider Shareholder Activism: Corporate Governance at the Periphery of Control
(with Mitch Towner and Aazam Virani)
Review of Corporate Finance Studies
, 2023
Count (and Count-Like) Data in Finance
(with Zack Liu and Malcolm Wardlaw)
Journal of Financial Economics
, 2022
Sources of Value Creation in Private Equity Buyouts of Private Firms
(with Edie Hotchkiss and Erin Towery)
Review of Finance
, 2022
Private Equity Buyouts and Workplace Safety
(with Nicole Nestoriak and Malcolm Wardlaw)
Review of Financial Studies
, 2021
A Project-Level Analysis of Value Creation in Firms
(with Umit Gurun and Rabih Moussawi)
Financial Management
, 2020
Financing Constraints and Workplace Safety
(with Malcolm Wardlaw)
Journal of Finance
, 2016
On Enhancing Shareholder Control: A (Dodd-) Frank Assessment of Proxy Access
(with Stu Gillan and Jay Hartzell)
Journal of Finance
, 2016
Do Stock Analysts Influence Merger Completion? An Examination of Post-Merger Announcement Recommendations
(with David Becher and Jennifer Juergens)
Management Science
, 2015
The Evolution of Capital Structure and Operating Performance After Leveraged Buyouts: Evidence from U.S. Corporate Tax Returns
(with Lillian Mills and Erin Towery)
Journal of Financial Economics
,
2014
How Much Do Analysts Influence Each Other's Forecasts?
(with Jennifer Juergens)
Quarterly Journal of Finance
, 2014
Optimal Corporate Governance in the Presence of an Activist Investor
(with Uday Rajan)
Review of Financial Studies
, 2013
Working papers
The decline of U.S. workplace injuries, improvements in safety, and changes in occupational composition
(with Malcolm Wardlaw), September 2024
Past is Prologue: Inference from the Cross Section of Returns Around an Event
(with Travis Johnson, Zack Liu, and Malcolm Wardlaw), June 2024
A Model of Informed Intermediation in the Market for Going Public
(with Aydoğan Altı), September 2023
Capital Structure, Corporate Investment, and Investor-Level Taxes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Europe
(with Sheridan Titman and Garry Twite), January 2023