Research

Working Papers

Can a Shareholder Focus Create Value for all Stakeholders? (with Matthew Souther)

• Media Coverage: The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog (June 10, 2025)
• Conferences and Seminars: RCF-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (scheduled), 2025 Georgia State Management Science AI & FinTech Conference (2025), Financial Management Association Conference, Vancouver (2025), Southern Finance Association (2025)
• Awards: Best Paper Award (Darla Moore School Business)

Selective Attention: Do Mutual Fund Incentives Affect their Voting? (with Matthew Souther)

• Conferences and Seminars: Financial Management Association Conference, Vancouver (2025), Southern Finance Association (2025), Global Finance Conference (2025)
• Awards: First Year Paper Award (Grant)

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) from the Small Business Perspective: Did the PPP Help Alleviate Financial and Economic Constraints? (with Allen N. Berger, Paul G. Freed, Zheyu Qi, Jonathan A. Scott, and Siwen Zhang)

• Conferences and Seminars: Southern Finance Association(2022), Financial Management Association(2022), Temple University, University of South Carolina
• Revise & Resubmit: Journal of Banking and Finance

Work in Progress

Changing the Subject: How Managerial Attention Reallocation Obscures Bad News (sole-authored)

• Seminars: AI in Finance Conference (scheduled), Financial Management Association Consortium (scheduled), Brownbag Seminar, University of South Carolina (2026)

Managerial Tax Attention and Corporate Tax Outcomes (with Jason DeBacker)

• Seminars: 119th Annual Conference on Taxation (scheduled)