Professor of Finance
Boston College: Carroll School of Management
Before joining BC, I served on the faculty of the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, which I joined after completing my doctorate at the University of Southern California.
My primary research focus is on corporate finance, corporate governance, and political economy. My work studies a wide range of investment decisions, including internal capital allocation, acquisitions, and government bailouts. In my work, I investigate various mechanisms and frictions that shape investment policies (and, more broadly, corporate decision-making), ranging from political economy and financial regulation to agency conflicts and human behavior.
My work has been published in the top finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. Several of my papers received best paper awards from leading academic conferences and were selected by journal editors as lead articles. According to Google Scholar, my papers received more than 8,500 citations and were cited in top journals of other disciplines, including Accounting, Management, Strategy, and Business Law. My work has also attracted attention from many popular publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Washington Post. I am also a Managing Editor at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
My teaching has been recognized by awards such as the Faculty PhD Mentor Award (2014, 2017), Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2018), Evening MBA Professor of the Year (2020), Carroll School Teaching Stars (2021, 2022), and the Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award (2023).