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Publications
 

How does judges' personal exposure to financial fraud affect white-collar sentencing? (with Trung Nguyen and Aneesh Raghunandan), Journal of Accounting Research 63(2), 2025


How do online conflict disclosures support enforcement? Evidence from personal financial disclosures and public corruption (solo-authored), The Accounting Review 99(4), 2024

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Creating firm disclosures (with Amir Amel-Zadeh and Eugene F. Soltes), Journal of Financial Reporting 4(2), 2019

Working papers

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A theory of auditor selection (with Deniz Kattwinkel, Jan Knoepfle, and Peter Wagner)

  • Presentations: 14th Accounting Research Workshop (Zurich), Finance Theory Group (FTG) Summer Meeting 2025 (London)

 

The HSR Dodgers: Lawyers in M&A antitrust (with Pietro Ramella and Carol Seregni)

  • Presentations: 2025 LBS/LSE Junior Accounting Conference, 2025 Four School Conference, Accounting Summer Camp (ASC) 2025 (Naples)

 

Fraud exposure and support for financial regulation (with Trung Nguyen and Aneesh Raghunandan)

Work in progress
 
Environmental litigation and disclosure (with Sean Cao and Jody Grewal)
 
Licensing the profession: Do entry routes influence accountant quality? (with Xi Li and Parth Shah)
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Awards and recognition
 

American Accounting Association Annual Meeting Outstanding Reviewer, 2024

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Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, Harvard Business School, 2021 (press coverage here)

Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Work, Harvard College, 2012

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