PAPERS

Dividend Policy:

“Firm Life Cycle Theory of Dividends”, in The Blackwell Companion to Dividends and Dividend Policy, H. Kent Baker (Ed.), Blackwell, forthcoming

(with Narayanan Subramanian)

On the Timing of Dividend Initiations, 2007, Financial Management Vol. 36(4), pp. 31-65

(with Narayanan Subramanian and Lloyd Tanlu)

When are Dividend Omissions Good News?, under review

(with Narayanan Subramanian and Lloyd Tanlu)

Loan Covenant Violations and Dividend Policy

(with Hayong Yun and Tyler Hull)

Capital Structure/Firm Financing:

Regulatory Risk, Market Risk and Capital Structure: Evidence from U.S. Electric Utilities, under review

(with Paroma Sanyal)

Is there room for growth? Debt, Growth Opportunities and the Deregulation of U.S. Electric Utilities, under review, (with Paroma Sanyal)

The Pecking Order of Financing in the Firm’s Life Cycle

(with Zhipeng Yan)

Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation:

A Few Bad Apples: An Analysis of CEO Performance Pay and Firm Productivity, under review

(with Paroma Sanyal and Zhipeng Yan)

Directors, Outsiders and Efficiency: An Analysis of How Board Characteristics Influence Firm Productivity

(with Paroma Sanyal and Zhipeng Yan)

Real Options:

Irreversible Investment, Real Options and Competition: Evidence from Real Estate Development, Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming

(with Chris Mayer and Tsur Somerville)

Real Options, Irreversible Investment and Firm Uncertainty: New Evidence from U.S. Firms, 2005

Review of Financial Economics: Special Issue on Real Options, Vol.14, pp. 255-279.

Last updated: January 2008