My research centers on financial distress and corporate bankruptcy, with additional work in ESG finance and executive compensation. Going forward, my focus is to integrate large language models more extensively into empirical analysis and measurement.
Working Papers
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Human Capital Metrics and CEO Pay (with Diane Burton, Lingling Wang, and Karen Wruck).
Ohio Fisher College of Business Working Paper; Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper.​
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Inheriting from Bankrupt Firms? Evidence on Long-term Performance of Local Firms (sole-authored). Revise & Resubmit, British Accounting Review.​
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Do SEC Enforcement Actions Deter Real Earnings Manipulations of Industry Peers (sole-authored)? Revise & Resubmit, Accounting and Finance.​
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CEO Disposition Effect and the Chapter 11 Filing Decisions (with Edward Lawrence). Under Review.​
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Sentiment Distortions and Financial Distress: Evidence from Companies’ 8-K Filings with LLM-Based Analysis (with Tarun Chordia, Qiang Kang, and Suchismita Mishra).​​
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AI Meets Corporate Strategy: Leveraging Large Language Models to Evaluate Product Changes in Distressed Firms (sole-authored).
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Do Bankruptcy Filings of Industry Rivals Mitigate Shareholder–Manager Conflict? Evidence on Earnings Management and Acquisitions (with Shiyi Chen and Rui Sun).​
Work in Progress
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COVID-19, Work from Home, and Racial Attitudes (with Shiyi Chen). ​​
Referee Services
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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
Editorial
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2025 - Present: Associate Editor, Journal of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Academic Conferences
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2025: FMA Annual Conference (scheduled to present)
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2025: SFA Annual Conference (scheduled to present)
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2025: MRS International Risk Conference
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2025: RCEA International Conference
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2025: American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting
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2024: The Conference Board Annual Meeting — Executive Compensation in Context
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2024: Cornell ICS Symposium: Paying for Human Capital Performance?
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2024: International Behavioral Finance Conference
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2024: Southwestern Finance Association Annual Conference (also chaired)
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2024: Eastern Finance Association Annual Conference (also chaired)
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2024: Florida International University Conference
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2023: British Accounting Review Annual Conference
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2023: Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting
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2023: Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics
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2023: The Business and Applied Sciences Academy of North America
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2022: Financial Management Association Annual Meeting
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2022: World Finance & Banking Symposium
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2021: American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Conference