Research

Publications

Cushioning the Blow: How Firms Target Credit Ratings

2026 (with Anil Shivdasani), Review of Corporate Finance Studies

The Distribution of Non-Wage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity

2023 (with Christos Makridis, Paige Ouimet, and Elena Simintzi), Review of Financial Studies

Can Nonprofits Save Lives Under Financial Stress? Evidence from the Hospital Industry

2025 (with Janet Gao, Sara Malik, and Merih Sevilir), Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Financial Economics

Director Turnover after Monitoring Failures: A Reexamination and New Evidence

2025 (with Sara Malik and Jordan Schoenfeld), Conditional Accept at the Accounting Review

Do Financial Markets Understand Cybersecurity: Evidence from a Direct Measure of Firm Network Vulnerabilities

2025 (with Christos Makridis)

When Policy Meets Preference: The Economic Impact of Employer Vaccine Mandate Bans

2025 (with Michael Cooper, Fan Li, and Yihui Pan)

Real Effects of Subjective Numbers: Rating Agency Subjective Lease Assessments and Firms’ Leasing Decisions

2023

Expected Legal Liability, the Number of Financial Statement Information Signals, and Credit Ratings’ Quality

2022 (with Petrus Ferreira, Wayne Landsman, and Donny Zhao)