Academic Research


Download select papers at my ssrn Author Page:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1788837

Selected Published Academic Papers

“Early Indicators of Fundraising Success by Venture Capital Firms.” with Henry Lahr (Open University, United Kingdom), Journal of Corporate Finance , 65 (2020): 101672.

“The Effect of Inter-firm Ties on Performance in Financial Markets.” with Umit Ozmel (Purdue University), M. Deniz Yavuz (Purdue University), and Ranjay Gulati (Harvard Business School), Organization Science, 31 (2019): 698-719.

“Outside Insiders: Does Access to Information Prior to an IPO Generate a Trading Advantage After the IPO?”, with Umit Ozmel (Purdue University) and M. Deniz Yavuz (Purdue University), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54.1 (2019): 303-334.

– Presented at WFA, and summarized on Columbia University’s Blue Sky Law blog

Works in Progress

(only listed if formally presented at conferences)

“The Cross-Border Buyout Next Door.” with Benjamin Hammer (HHL Leipzig), Sven Mettner (HHL Leipzig), and Denis Schweizer (Concordia University)


“Railroad Tunneling: Self Dealing During the Construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.”(single-author)

“It’s All Relative: The Effects of Political Connections on Firms.” (single-author)

“Long Term Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation.” with Haim Kassa (Miami University) and T. Colin Campbell (University of Cincinnati)

“Transmission of Information from Private to Public Markets” with Shrijata Chattopadhyay (Purdue University), Deniz Yavuz (Purdue University), and John McConnell (Purdue University)

“Employee Tournaments and Corporate Innovation” with Incheol Kim (University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley)

Also, I have several other projects that are in earlier stages.

Updated 4/2022