Interests
My research interests span non-financial misconduct, ESG issues, and corporate subsidies. If there is no link to a paper below, please contact me directly if you would like a copy.
Publications
Misreporting of Mandatory ESG Disclosures: Evidence from Gender Pay Gap Information (with McKenna Bailey, Stephen Glaeser, and James Omartian)
Forthcoming, Management Science
Two-Sided Matching in the Audit Market (with Ken Li and Maureen McNichols)
The Accounting Review 100(1), 2025
How Does Judges' Personal Exposure to Financial Fraud Affect White-Collar Sentencing? (with Trung Nguyen and Alexa Scherf)
Journal of Accounting Research 63(2), 2025.
Tax Subsidy Disclosure and Local Economic Effects (with Lisa De Simone and Rebecca Lester)
Journal of Accounting Research 63(2), 2025.
Do Socially Responsible Firms Walk the Talk? (with Shiva Rajgopal)
Journal of Law and Economics 67(4), 2024.
- Wall Street Journal op-ed (December 2, 2019)
When Do Firms Deliver on the Jobs They Promise in Return for State Aid? (with Qingkai Dong and Shiva Rajgopal)
Review of Accounting Studies 29(4), 2024.
Government Subsidies and Corporate Misconduct
Journal of Accounting Research 62(4), 2024.
The Impact of Information Frictions Within Regulators: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations (with Thomas Ruchti)
Journal of Accounting Research 62(3), 2024
- Selected for 2023 JAR conference
Are Carbon Emissions Associated with Stock Returns? (with Jitendra Aswani and Shiva Rajgopal)
Review of Finance 28(1), 2024.
Do ESG Funds Make Stakeholder-Friendly Investments? (with Shiva Rajgopal)
Review of Accounting Studies; 27(3), 2022.
- Presented at 2021 RAST Conference
Financial Misconduct and Employee Mistreatment: Evidence from Wage Theft
Review of Accounting Studies; 26(3), 2021.
- Presented at 2020 RAST Conference
- Best Paper Award, 2020 RAST Conference
Are audit fees discounted in initial year audit engagements? (with Abhijit Barua and Clive Lennox)
Journal of Accounting and Economics; 69(2-3), 2020.
Working papers
Reputation-Building Actions After Corporate Social Irresponsibility (with Wei Cai, Shiva Rajgopal, and Wenxin Wang)
- Revise and Resubmit, Management Science
The Economics of ESG Disclosure Regulation (with Rich Frankel and S.P. Kothari)
- Revise and Resubmit, Review of Accounting Studies
Mandatory US Subsidy Disclosures: Early Evidence (with Dian Jiao, Min Jun Song, and Shiva Rajgopal)
- Revise and Resubmit, The Accounting Review
Public Employee Complaints, Whistleblowing, and Regulatory Activity: Evidence from Workplace Safety Inspections (with Jeroen Koenraadt and Thomas Ruchti)
Media Coverage of Employment Discrimination (with Devin Shanthikumar and Elizabeth Tori)
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