Teaching
2008-2011: Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity (Bus 34101)
2012: Global Entrepreneurial Finance
Working Papers
1.Tax Evasion across Industries: Evidence from Greece [new draft coming soon]
with Nikolaos Artavanis and Margarita
Tsoutsoura
2. Activist Investors and Private Equity Performance
3. Trickle-Down Consumption (Executive Summary)
with Marianne Bertrand
4. Sovereign Wealth Fund Portfolios
with
Alexander Dyck
Under Submission.
5. How Pervasive is Corporate Fraud?
with Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales
Publications & Forthcomings
Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing
with Marianne Bertrand
Journal of Finance, December 2011
Lead Article
State of Texas implementation of disclosure rules with our design
Payday Lenders: Heroes or Villains?
Journal of Financial Economics, October 2011
Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
with Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales
Journal of Finance, December 2010
Data: Summaries of [Alleged] Corporate Fraud Cases
Data: Cases & DatesSee Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act for implementation of our main finding
concerning whistleblowing and money incentives.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h4173enr.txt.pdf
Are Incentive Contracts Rigged by Powerful CEOs?
with Vikram Nanda and Amit Seru
Journal of Finance, October 2011
Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
with E. Han Kim and Luigi Zingales
Journal of Financial Economics, September 2009, Volume 93 (3), pg 353-381
Lead Article
Winner of 2nd Prize, 2009 Journal of Financial Economics:
Jensen Prize for Corporate Finance and Organizations
What do High-Interest Borrowers do with their Tax Rebates?
with Marianne Bertrand
American Economic Review, May 2009
Discussion of `Financially Fragile Households’ by A. Lusardi & P. Tufano
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2011
Patriotism in Your Portfolio?
with Sophie Shive
Journal of Financial Markets, 2010. Volume 14 (2), pg 411-440.
What Has Mattered To Economics Since 1970?
with E. Han Kim and Luigi Zingales
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2006