Research
Main Publications
Product price risk and liquidity management: evidence from the electricity industry, with Chen Lin and Mike Weisbach
Management Science, 2021
Is skin in the game a game changer? Evidence from mandatory changes to D&O insurance policies, with Chen Lin, Micah Officer, Hong Zou
Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2019
Employee representation and financial leverage, with Chen Lin and Yuhai Xuan
Journal of Financial Economics, 2018
Production flexibility, product markets, and capital structure decisions, with Sebastian J. Reinartz
Review of Financial Studies, 2016
Family firms and R&D behavior – New evidence from a large-scale survey, with A.-K. Achleitner, C. Kaserer, and M. Ampenberger.
Research Policy, 2014
The value of financial flexibility and corporate financial policy, with Marc Steffen Rapp and Daniel Urban
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2014
Why do firms (not) hedge? – Novel evidence on cultural influence, with Martin Lievenbrück
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2014
Control considerations, creditor monitoring, and the capital structure of family firms
Journal of Banking and Finance, 2013
Working Papers
Risk perceptions, board networks, and directors’ monitoring, with Wenzhi (Dave) Ding, Chen Lin, and Mike Weisbach
Does board size matter?, with Dirk Jenter and Daniel Urban
presented at AFA 2019, SFS Cavalcade 2018, CEPR Spring Symposium 2018, and Gerzensee Symposium 2018
Climate change and corporate investments: Evidence from planned power plants, with Chen Lin and Mike Weisbach
presented at the 2018 Summer Finance and Accounting Conference in Jerusalem, the 2019 Oklahoma Energy and Commodities Finance Research Conference, and the European Finance Association Annual Meeting 2020 [virtual]
Horizontal wage inequality within firms, with Daniel Bias, Chen Lin, and Ben Lochner
accepted for presentation at EFA 2021, presented at the EEA 2019
Do outside directorships influence CEO decision making? Evidence from labor strikes, with Daniel Bias
presented at AFA 2017
The economic consequences of a “glass-ceiling”: women on corporate boards and firm value, with Daniel Urban
presented at AFA 2016, FIRS 2016, SGF 2016, VHB 2016, and Paris December Meeting 2015
Employee representation and the manager-to-worker pay ratio, with Chen Lin and Yang Sun
presented at EFA 2016 and FIRS 2017
Work in Progress
Innovation in public and private firms (with Roni Michaely)
Long-run effects of exogenous executive retirements (with Dirk Jenter and Daniel Urban)
Employee representation and accounting conservatism (with Chen Lin and Huai Zhang)