Published Research Papers

"CEO Short-Term Incentives and the Agency Cost of Debt"

Contemporary Accounting Research (forthcoming)

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 (forthcoming)

"The Threat of Shareholder Disapproval and the Value of Voting" 

Journal of Financial Research (2024)

with Justin Balthrop

Working Papers

"The Salience of Creditors' Interests and CEO Compensation"

    with Brian Akins, David De Angelis, and Maclean Gaulin

"Implied Future Policy Promises and Firm Leverage" 

with Justin Balthrop

"Do Firms Respond to Competition with Imitation or Differentiation?"

"Credit Indexes, Arbitrage and Contagion"

with Justin Balthrop


Works in Progress

"Proxy Advisor Influence on CEO Incentive Design"

with Brandy Hadley

"The Effect of Informative Events in a Contingent Claims Pricing Framework"

with Alex Holcomb and Paul Mason

Published Pedagogical Papers

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

Journal of Financial Education (forthcoming)

with Jeff Hobbs and Alex Holcomb