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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

• 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
• Corporations and COVID-19 in the Workplace (with Lixiong Guo and Zhiyan Wang), July 2022