Published Papers

  • “Does Firm Culture Influence Corporate Financing Decisions? Evidence from Debt Maturity Choice” with Sudip Datta (University of Missouri) and Trang Doan (Eastern Illinois University), Journal of Banking and Finance, Accepted, September 2024.
  • “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Executive-Employee Pay Disparity” with Ranjan D’Mello and Sungjoung Kwon (Wayne State University), Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 162, May 2024.
  • “Top Executive Gender, Corporate Culture, and the Value of Corporate Cash Holdings” with Sudip Datta (University of Missouri) and Trang Doan (Eastern Illinois University), Journal of Financial Stability, Vol. 67, July 2023.
  •  “The Declining Trade Credit Ratio Puzzle” with Ranjan D’Mello (Wayne State University) and Mark Gruskin (Penn State University Lehigh Valley), Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 40, October 2022.
  • “Top Executive Gender, Board Gender Diversity, and Financing Decisions: Evidence from Debt Structure Choice” with Sudip Datta (University of Missouri) and Trang Doan (Eastern Illinois University), Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 125, April 2021.
  • “Policy Uncertainty and Short-Term Financing: The Case of Trade Credit” with Ranjan D’Mello (Wayne State University), Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 64, October 2020.
  • “Does the Dodd-Frank Act Reduce the Conflicts of Interest Faced by Credit Rating Agencies?”, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol 62, June 2020.

Working Papers

  • “Credit Ratings, CEO Entrenchment, and Turnover: The Information Content of Credit Ratings” with Anna Maria C. Menichini (University of Salerno and CSEF), CSEF Working Papers 459, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.

Work in Progress

  • “Are Ethnic Minority CEOs more Conservative in their Accounting Choices?” with Shriya Shekhar (Gonzaga University), Min-Jeong Kwon (Mars Hill University). Under Review
  • “Incentives, Clienteles, and Information Production: New Evidence from Investor-paid and Issuer-Paid Agency Credit Ratings and Equity Analyst Recommendations” with Thomas J. Chemmanur (Boston College) and Igor Karagodsky (Analysis Group).
  • “Credit Ratings and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy” with Dominique Brabant and Michael F. Connolly (Fannie Mae).
  • “Suppliers as Financiers of the Last Resort: The Effect of Exogenous Changes in Analyst Coverage” on Trade Credit with Thomas J. Chemmanur (Boston College) and Qing Ma (Nottingham University Business School).