My research focuses on corporate governance. Here are links to my publications and working papers:
Publications:
The effects of takeover defenses: Evidence from closed-end funds
Published in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2016
Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (2/22/16)
The effects of internal board networks: Evidence from closed-end funds
Published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2018
Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (10/06/18)
Managerial Reliance on the Retail Shareholder Vote: Evidence from Proxy Delivery Methods (with Choonsik Lee)
Published in Management Science, 2020
Featured in The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog (5/29/2017), Oxford Law School Business Law Blog (6/13/2017), Corporate Secretary (7/27/2017)
At the Table But Can't Break Through the Glass Ceiling: Many Board Positions Elude Diverse Directors (with Laura Field and Adam Yore)
Published in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2020
Featured in The Wall Street Journal (8/2/2016), Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (8/4/2016), Financial Times Agenda (9/29/2016), Fortune (1/11/2017)
Semi-finalist for Best Corporate Finance Paper at FMA (2017)
Does Board Independence Increase Firm Value? Evidence from Closed-End Funds
Published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021
Shining a Light in a Dark Corner: Does EDGAR Search Activity Reveal the Strategically Leaked Plans of Activist Investors? (with Ryan Flugum and Choonsik Lee)
Published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2023
Featured in Institutional Investor (6/5/2020), Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog (6/15/2020), The Deal (6/2020), Financial Times Agenda Week (2/17/2022)
Awarded KB Securities Best Paper Award at 2020 Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (Seoul, Korea); Outstanding Paper for Overseas Scholars at the 2021 Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Association; Top Paper Session at the 2021 Southern Finance Association meetings
Cited by the US Senate and the SEC's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis in discussion of SEC rule proposals (Release Nos. 33-11030; 34-94211; "Modernization of Beneficial Ownership Reporting")
What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas? Firsthand Experience and EDGAR Search Activity in Las Vegas Casino Hotels (with Ryan Flugum and Choonsik Lee)
Published in Financial Management, 2023
Stakeholder Value: A Convenient Excuse for Underperforming Managers? (with Ryan Flugum)
Published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Featured in Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, Harvard Business Review, CNN
Invited for presentation at the 2022 Clemson University ESG & Policy Conference
Working Papers:
Can a Shareholder Focus Create Value for all Stakeholders? (with John Ampong)
Featured in Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog
Not in my Backyard: Personal Bias in Mutual Fund Voting on Environmental and Social Proposals (with Ryan Flugum and Choonsik Lee)
Professional Education and Mutual Fund Voting on Environmental and Social Proposals (with Adam Aiken, Choonsik Lee, and H. Zafer Yuksel)
Presented at the University of Rhode Island and the 2024 FMA Asia/Pacific Conference