Research

Research

My research interests include agency issues, contract and incentive design, product-market competition, corporate governance, executive compensation, and corporate debt.

Published research

The Effect of Informative Events in a Contingent Claims Pricing Framework: Evidence from IPOs

Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions · Forthcoming

With Alex Holcomb and Paul Mason.

Implied Future Policy Promises and Firm Leverage

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting · 2026

With Justin Balthrop.

CEO Short-Term Incentives and the Agency Cost of Debt

Contemporary Accounting Research · 2025

With Brian Akins, David De Angelis, and Maclean Gaulin.

Do Firms Respond to Foreign Competitive Threats with Herding or Dispersion?

International Journal of Managerial Finance · 2025

The Threat of Shareholder Disapproval and the Value of Voting

Journal of Financial Research · 2024

With Justin Balthrop.

Pedagogical research

Teaching Incremental Cash Flows Through Financial Causality: A Staged Instructional Model

Advances in Financial Education · 2026

With Brandy Hadley and Jeff Hobbs.

Teaching Early Exercise, the Asymmetry of Changes in Payoff, and the Speculative Value of Options

Journal of Financial Education · 2024

With Jeff Hobbs and Alex Holcomb.

Working papers

Trade as I Say, Not as I Do: Management Rhetoric and Insider Stock Sales

With Justin Balthrop and Ryan Clark.

Proxy Advisor Influence on CEO Incentive Design

With Brandy Hadley.

Credit Indexes, Arbitrage and Contagion

With Justin Balthrop.

Work in progress

AI Adoption and Compliance Risk: Does Senior Legal Leadership Matter?

Product Space and Incentive Space