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My research interests include capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, private equity & venture capital, financial institutions, financial market regulation, securities lending and short selling.

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)

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Columbia University - (New York, New York, United States)

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Mark-to-market regulatory accounting when securities markets are stressed: Lessons from the financial crisis of 20072009

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Investment Banking and Analyst Objectivity: Evidence from Analysts Affiliated with Mergers and Acquisitions Advisors

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Can Strong Boards and Trading Their Own Firm's Stock Help CEOs Make Better Decisions? Evidence from Acquisitions by Overconfident CEOs

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When Myopic Managers Must Mark to Market

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R&D or R vs. D? Firm Innovation Strategy and Equity Ownership

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Managerial myopia and the mortgage meltdown

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Trade Secrets, Labor Mobility, and Innovation

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Managerial Myopia and the Mortgage Meltdown

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Can Short Restrictions Actually Increase Informed Short Selling?

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Subsidiary debt, capital structure and internal capital markets

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How Does Lender Health Affect Covenant-Violating Borrowers?

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A Multiple Lender Approach to Understanding Supply and Search in the Equity Lending Market

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How Does Failure Spread Across Broker-Dealers and Dealer Banks?

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Prohibitions Versus Constraints: The 2008 Short Sales Regulations

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Bears and Numbers: Investigating How Short Sellers Exploit and Affect Earnings-Based Pricing Anomalies

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Ambiguity Aversion and Beating Benchmarks: Does it Create a Pattern?

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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On the Economic Meaning of Interaction Term Coefficients in Non-Linear Binary Response Regression Models

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Bears and Numbers: Investigating How Short Sellers Exploit and Affect Earnings-Based Pricing Anomalies

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CEO Narcissism, Human Capital, and Firm Value

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Do Private Equity Sponsor Returns Result from Wealth Transfers and Short-Termism? Evidence from a Comprehensive Sample of Large Buyouts and Exit Outcomes

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Dedicated vs Transient: Not All Institutional Attention Is Good Attention

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When Myopic Managers Must Mark to Market

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Repo Runs and Bond Market Liquidity Shocks: The Mechanism of Contagion Among Broker-Dealers During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

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Are corporate managers savvy about their stock price? Evidence from insider trading after earnings announcements

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Do Private Equity Returns Result from Wealth Transfers and Short-Termism? Evidence from a Comprehensive Sample of Large Buyouts

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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How Does Lender Health Affect Covenant-Violating Borrowers?

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Dedicated vs Transient: Not All Institutional Attention Is Good Attention

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How Does Failure Spread Across Broker-Dealers and Dealer Banks?

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CEO Narcissism, Human Capital, and Firm Value

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A tale of two intermediaries: A discussion of Johnston, Markov and Ramnath (2009), and Cheng and Neamtiu (2009)

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A Multiple Lender Approach to Understanding Supply and Search in the Equity Lending Market

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Can Short Restrictions Result in More Informed Short Selling? Evidence from the 2008 Regulations

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Can Independent Directors Restrain Overconfident CEO'S? Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions

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Can Short Restrictions Result in More Informed Short Selling? Evidence from the 2008 Regulations

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Is the Chinese Wall Too High? Investigating the Costs of New Restrictions on Cooperation between Analysts and Investment Bankers

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Do Strong Boards and Trading in Their Own Firm's Stock Help CEOs Make Better Decisions? Evidence from Corporate Acquisitions by Overconfident CEOs.

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R&D or R vs. D? Firm Innovation Strategy and Equity Ownership

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Do Private Equity Returns Result from Wealth Transfers and Short-Termism? Evidence from a Comprehensive Sample of Large Buyouts

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On the Economic Meaning of Interaction Term Coefficients in Non-Linear Binary Response Regression Models

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Do Strong Boards and Trading in Their Own Firm's Stock Help CEOs Make Better Decisions? Evidence from Corporate Acquisitions by Overconfident CEOs.

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Texas A&M University; Finance; 4218 TAMU