Published Papers
Working Papers
Books
Book Chapters and Policy Work
- Legal Risk and Insider Trading (with Emiliano Pagnotta): Journal of Finance 79(1), 2024, 305-355.
- Behind Schedule: The Corporate Effort to Fulfill Climate Obligations (with Joseph E. Aldy, Patrick Bolton, and Zachery M. Halem) Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 35(2), 2023, 1–9.
- Market Power and Price Informativeness (with Jaromir Nosal and Savitar Sundaresan): Review of Economic Studies forthcoming. June 2023.
- Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk (with Patrick Bolton): Journal of Finance 78(6), 2023, 3677-3754.
- Sustainable Finance (with Alex Edmans): Review of Finance 69, 2022, 1309-1313. Editorial.
- Do Security Analysts Discipline Credit Rating Agencies? (with Kingsley Fong, Harrison Hong, and Jeff Kubik): Review of Corporate Finance Studies 11(4), 2022, 815-848. Lead Article Editor's Choice.
- The Financial Cost of Carbon (with Patrick Bolton and Zachery Halem): Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 34(2), 2022, 17-29.
- Net-Zero Carbon Portfolio Alignment (with Patrick Bolton and Frederic Samama): Financial Analysts Journal 78(2), 2022, 19-33. Lead Research Article.
- Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds (with Dunhong Jin, Bige Kahraman, and Felix Suntheim): Review of Financial Studies 35(1), 2022, 1-50. Lead Article Editor's Choice.
- Do Investors Care About Carbon Risk? (with Patrick Bolton): Journal of Financial Economics 142(2), 2021, 517-549.
- The Private Production of Safe Assets (with Christophe Perignon and Guillaume Vuillemey): Journal of Finance 76(2), 2021, 495-535. Lead Article.
- Do Foreign Investors Improve Price Efficiency? (with Savitar Sundaresan and Tianyu Wang): Review of Financial Studies 34(3), 2021, 1317-1367. International Finance Conference Best Paper Award.
- Chasing Private Information (with Emiliano Pagnotta): Review of Financial Studies 32, 2019, 4997-5047.
- Investor Sophistication and Capital Income Inequality (with Jaromir Nosal and Luminita Stevens): Journal of Monetary Economics 107, 2019, 18-31. (Technical Appendix).
- The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy (with Marco Di Maggio): Journal of Financial Economics 123(1), 2017, 59-80. Inquire Europe Research Grant Award.
- A Rational Theory of Mutual Funds' Attention Allocation (with Stijn van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp): Econometrica 84(2), 2016, 571-626. (Technical Appendix ) Q-Group Research Grant Award.
- Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill (with Stijn van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp): Journal of Finance 69, 2015, 1455-1484. Nominated for the Smith-Breeden Award.
- How Safe are Money Market Funds? (with Philipp Schnabl): Quarterly Journal of Economics 128(3), 2013, 1073-1122.
- A New Class of Bayesian Semiparametric Models with Applications to Option Pricing (with Paul Damien and Stephen Walker): Quantitative Finance 13(6), 2013, 967-980.
- Do Nonfinancial Stakeholders Affect the Pricing of Risky Debt? Evidence from Unionized Workers (with Jason Chen and Hernan Ortiz-Molina): Review of Finance 16(2), 2012, 347-383. Spangler IQAM Prize for Best Paper in the Review of Finance (runner-up).
- Labor Unions, Operating Flexibility, and the Cost of Equity (with Jason Chen and Hernan Ortiz-Molina): Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46, 2011, 25-58.
- Competition and Bias (with Harrison Hong): Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(4), 2010, 1683-1725.
- When Safe Proved Risky: Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 (with Philipp Schnabl): Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, 2010, 29-50.
- The Price of Sin: The Effects of Social Norms on Markets (with Harrison Hong): Journal of Financial Economics 93, 2009, 15-36. Commonfund Institute Award (EFA 2006). 2006 Moskowitz Prize (Honorable Mention) for Socially Responsible Investing Research. JFE Hall of Fame.
- Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds (with Clemens Sialm and Lu Zheng): Review of Financial Studies 21, 2008, 2379-2416. Lead Article.
- Industry Concentration and Mutual Fund Performance (with Clemens Sialm and Lu Zheng): Journal of Investment Management 5, 2007, 50-64.
- Fund Manager Use of Public Information: New Evidence on Managerial Skills (with Amit Seru): Journal of Finance 62, 2007, 485-528. Lead Article. Nominated for the Smith-Breeden Award.
- On the Industry Concentration of Actively Managed Mutual Funds (with Clemens Sialm and Lu Zheng): Journal of Finance 60, 2005, 1983-2012. Nominated for the Smith-Breeden Award.
Working Papers
- Inflation and the Carbon Premium (with Patrick Bolton and Tianyu Wang): First Draft: May 2024.
- Carbon Home Bias (with Patrick Bolton and Marc Eskildsen): Revised: June 2024.
- Carbon-Transition Risk and Net-Zero Portfolios (with Gino Cenedese and Shangqi Han): Revised: May 2024.
- Show and Tell: An Analysis of Corporate Climate Messaging and its Financial Impacts (with Joseph Aldy, Patrick Bolton, Zachery Halem, and Peter Orszag): April 2023.
- The CO2 Question: Technical Progress and the Climate Crisis (with Patrick Bolton and Moritz Wiedemann): Revised: May 2023.
- Global Volatility and Firm-Level Capital Flows (with Jaromir Nosal and Tianyu Wang): Revised: March 2024.
- Carbon Emissions and the Bank-Lending Channel (with Jose Luis Peydro): Revised: July 2022.
- Firm Commitments (with Patrick Bolton): Revised: September 2023. UNPRI Conference Best Paper Award.
- Carbon Disclosure and the Cost of Capital (with Patrick Bolton): Revised: November 2021. EFA 2021 Best Paper Award on Sustainable Finance, Runner-Up.
- Does Firm Organization Matter? Evidence from Centralized and Decentralized Mutual Funds (with Jose Liberti and Amit Seru): October 2015 (available upon request).
- Asset Allocation under Distribution Uncertainty: April 2011.
Books
- Resilience of the Financial System to Natural Disasters (with Patrick Bolton, Harrison Hong, and Xavier Vives): May 2021.
Book Chapters and Policy Work
- Mandatory Corporate Carbon Disclosures and the Path to Net Zero (with Patrick Bolton, Christian Leuz, Gaizka Ormazabal, Stefan Reichelstein, and Dirk Schoenmaker): Management and Business Review 1(3), 2021, 21-30.
- Time-Varying Predictability in Mutual Fund Returns (with Vincent Glode, Burton Hollifield, and Shimon Kogan): March 2012.
- Hedge Funds in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis (with Stephen Brown, Alexander Ljungqvist, Anthony Lynch, Lasse Pedersen, and Matthew Richardson), in: Restoring Financial Stability (eds. Viral Acharya, Matthew Richardson). John Wiley & Sons, NJ 2009.
- Money Market Funds: How to Avoid “Breaking the Buck" (with Philipp Schnabl), in: Real Time Solutions for Financial Reform (eds. Viral Acharya, Thomas Cooley, Matthew Richardson, and Ingo Walter). John Wiley & Sons, NJ 2010.