RESEARCH INTEREST
Theoretical and empirical corporate finance, with emphasis on: IPOs, restructuring, merger and acquisitions, security design, corporate disclosure, and strategic behavior by financial analysts

 

Theoretical and empirical issues in market efficiency, and asset pricing under asymmetric information.


PUBLICATIONS

 

“Do Investment Banks Listen to Their Own Analysts?”  forthcoming in the Journal of Banking and Finance.

(with Brad Jordan, University of Kentucky, and Qun Wu, SUNY Oneonta)

 

“A Theory of Equity Carve-Outs and Negative Stub Values under Heterogeneous Beliefs,” 2011 the Journal of Financial Economics 100, 616-638.

(with Onur Bayar, UT San Antonio, and Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College)

 

“Analysts’ Incentives to Produce Industry-Level versus Firm-Specific Information,” 2011 the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46, 757-784.

(single-authored)

 

“Does More Information in Stock Price Lead to Greater or Smaller Idiosyncratic Return Volatility?’’ 2011 Journal of Banking and Finance 35, 1563-1580.

(with Dong Lee, Korea University)

 

“Institutional Trading, Information Production, and the Choice between Spin-Offs, Carve-Outs, and Tracking Stock Issues,”  2011 Journal of Corporate Finance 17, 62-82.

(with Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College)

 

“Anti-takeover Provisions in Corporate Spin-offs,”  2010 Journal of Banking and Finance 34, 813-824.

(with Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College, Brad Jordan, University of Kentucky, and Qun Wu, SUNY Oneonta)

 

“Stock Splits as a Manipulation Tool: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions” , 2008 Financial Management 37, 695-712.

(with Shourun Guo, Duke Energy, and Weihong Song, University of Cincinnati)

 

"Buy-side Analysts, Sell-side Analysts, and Investment Decisions of Money Managers," 2006, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 41, 51-83.

(with Yingmei Cheng, Florida State University, and Jun Qian, Boston College)

 

WORKING PAPERS

My SSRN author page

 

 

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

York University, Canada                           Jan 28, 2008

Queen’s University, Canada                      May 12, 2007

Peking University, P.R. China                    March 17, 2006

Stanford University                                    March 11, 2004

Suffolk University                                      March 5, 2004

Brattle Group                                            Feb 26, 2004

University of Kentucky                              Feb 13, 2004

Virginia Tech                                             Feb 6, 2004

Baruch College                                          Feb 4, 2004

Seattle University                                       Jan 30, 2004

George State University                             Jan. 28, 2004

Wichita State University                             Jan 23, 2004

University of George                                  Dec. 5, 2003

SUNY Binghamton                                    Nov. 3, 2003