Research

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)

• Forthcoming in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 

• 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)

• Forthcoming in Financial Management

Stakeholder Value: A Convenient Excuse for Underperforming Managers? (with Ryan Flugum)

• Forthcoming in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

• Featured in Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, Harvard Business Review, CNN

• Presented at the 2022 American Finance Association meetings and the 2021 Financial Intermediation Research Society meetings

• Invited for presentation at the 2022 Clemson University ESG & Policy Conference