Publications and Forthcoming
Other People’s Votes: The Law and Economics of Proxy Advice (forthcoming, Geo. L.J.) (with Edwin Hu and Nadya Malenko).
The Reputation Paradox: Private Funds, New Managers, and the Allocation of Investment Capital (forthcoming, J. Corp. L.) (with William Clayton)
Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations, 22(4) J. Emp. Legal Stud. 525 (2025)).
Manipulating Random Assignment: Evidence from Consumer Bankruptcies in the Nation’s Largest Cities (with Edward Morrison and Belisa Pang) (forthcoming, Am. L. & Econ. Rev.).
Winner, American Law & Economics Review's Best Empirical Paper Award, 2025
Retail Shareholder Participation in the Proxy Process: Monitoring, Engagement, and Voting (with Alon Brav and Matthew Cain), 144(2) J. Fin. Econ. 492 (2022).
Media: Business Law Prof Blog
Is EU Merger Control Used for Protectionism? An Empirical Analysis (with Anu Bradford and Robert J. Jackson, Jr.), 15 J. Emp. Legal Stud. 165 (2018).
Working Papers
Custom Proxy Voting Advice (revise and resubmit, J. Fin.) (with Edwin Hu and Nadya Malenko).
Winner, Best Paper, First Annual Corporate Governance Academic Forum, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
Winner, Paul Van Arsdell Award in Corporate Finance, Midwest Finance Association, 2025
Winner, John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, University of Delaware’s John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, 2025
Winner, Best Paper in Corporate Finance, Northern Finance Association, 2024
Selected for 2023 American Law and Economics Conference Junior Scholars Featured Papers Panel, for the “best papers submitted or-coauthored by junior scholars with potential to be of general interest.”
Media: Business Law Prof Blog, ECGI video
Media: Gladstone Place Partners Weekly Newsletter; Calcorporatelaw Substack
The Effects of a Selective Tax on Contract Design and Tax Timing (revise and resubmit, J. Legal Stud.).
Do Mutual Funds Represent Individual Investors? (working paper).
Winner, Governance Insight Award, Investments and Wealth Institute, 2022
Individual Investor Ideology (working paper) (with Robert J. Jackson, Jr.).
Winner, Best Paper, 2023 American Law and Economics Conference
Trade the Pick: Ending Tanking in Professional Sports (working paper)
Media
Elon Musk Bought Twitter. Now He Must Own It
With Yair Listokin
Guest Essay, New York Times (July 14, 2022)
With Edwin Hu
Guest Essay, Financial Times Alphaville (August 6, 2025)
Does the end of ‘benchmark’ proxy policies actually change anything?
With Edwin Hu and Nadya Malenko
Guest Essay, Financial Times Alphaville (October 23, 2025)