Research

Research Interests

Empirical Corporate Finance, Liquidity Management, Payout Policy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG)

Academic Works

Asymmetric Cost Behavior and Non-Financial Firms' Risky Financial Investments (solo-authored), 2026.

Forthcoming in Journal of Banking & Finance

Presentations: Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2026, Scheduled), Hawaii Accounting Research Conference (HARC) (2024), 4th Annual Boca-European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (2023), University of Mississippi (2023), University of South Carolina (2023), Monash University (2023), Clemson University (2023), Rochester Institute of Technology (2023), University of Arizona (2023), Financial Management Association (FMA) Doctoral Student Consortium (2023), American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting (2023), AAA Spark Meeting (Western) (2023), AAA Southwest Region Meeting (2023), Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2023), Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2022), FMA Annual Meeting (2022), World Finance Conference (2022), Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference (2022).

Comment on "Regulating Gender Diversity: Evidence from California Senate Bill 826" (with Daniel Greene, Vincent Intintoli, and Kathleen M. Kahle), 2026.

Forthcoming in Management Science

Presentations: University of Mississippi (2025)

Reconciling the Evidence on Board Diversity Mandates (with Daniel Greene, Vincent Intintoli, and Kathleen M. Kahle), 2025, Journal of Corporate Finance, 94: 102838.

Presentations: Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2025)*, University of Alberta’s Frontiers in Finance Conference (2025)*, MMM (University of Mississippi, University of Memphis, and Mississippi State University) Conference (2025), Florida International University (2024)*

Media Coverage: USA Today (February 21, 2022)

Non-Regular Employment and Payout Policy: Evidence from the Massachusetts Independent Contractor Law (with Kathleen M. Kahle), 2024, Management Science, 70(9): 6415-6437.

Presentations: Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2021), European Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (2021), Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2021), Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meeting (2020), University of Arizona (2019, 2020)

The Effects of Antitrust Laws on Horizontal Mergers: International Evidence (with Iftekhar Hasan, Incheol Kim, and Chuneyoung Chung), 2024, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, 59(7): 3267-3298.

Presentation: Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting (2021)

Does Mandatory Disclosure Improve Workplace Human Rights? Evidence from the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (with Iftekhar Hasan and Incheol Kim), 2022 (Permanent Working Paper).

Presentations: Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2022), Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting (2021), Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2021)

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Institutional Monitoring and Executive Pay Rigidity (with Paul Moon Sub Choi, Chang Liu, and Chuneyoung Chung), 2019, Journal of Financial Research, 42(4): 789-816.

When Institutions Passively Curb Earnings Management: Evidence from the Korean Market (with Donghyun Kim, Chang Liu, and Chuneyoung Chung), 2018, Finance Research Letters, 25: 274-279.

(* denotes co-author presentations.)