Research

My research focuses on corporate governance. Here are a few of my projects:


Publications:
Published in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2016
Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (2/22/16)

Published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2018
Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (10/06/18)

Forthcoming in Management Science
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)



Working Papers:

Does Board Independence Increase Firm Value? Evidence from Closed-End Funds
Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Does Diversity Pay in the Boardroom? (with Laura Field and Adam Yore)
Full text available at SSRN
Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Financial Economics
Featured in The Wall Street Journal (8/2/2016), Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (8/4/16), Financial Times Agenda (9/29/2016), Fortune (1/11/2017)
Semi-finalist for Best Corporate Finance Paper at FMA (2017)
Presented at the Financial Institutions, Regulation, and Corporate Governance Conference (2017), Eastern Finance Association (2017), Northern Finance Association (2017), Financial Management Association (2017), Southern Finance Association (2017), and SFS Cavalcade (2018)

External Monitoring and Returns to Hedge Fund Activist Campaigns (with Ryan Flugum)
Full text available at SSRN
Presented at Financial Management Association (2017)