Accepted Papers

The Limits of Model-Based Regulation
Journal of Finance (forthcoming)
(with M. Behn and R. Haselmann)

Talent in Distressed Firms: Investigating the Labor Costs of Financial Distress
Journal of Finance (2021)
(with R. Baghai, R. Silva and V. Thell)

Leverage Buyouts and Bond Credit Spreads
Journal of Financial Economics (2020)
(with Y. Eisenthal and P. Feldhutter)

Experience of Communal Conflicts and Inter-group Lending
Journal of Political Economy (2020)
(with R. Fisman, A.Sarkar and J. Skrastins)

How Organizational Hierarchy Affects Information Production
Review of Financial Studies (2019)
(with J. Skrastins)

Rent Seeking in Elite Networks
Journal of Political Economy (2018)
(with R. Haselmann and D. Schoenherr)

Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
American Economic Review (2017)
(with R. Fisman and D. Paravisini)

Labor Protection and Leverage
Review of Financial Studies (2015)
(with E. Simintzi and P. Volpin)

The Failure of Models that Predict Failure: Distance, Incentives, and Defaults
Journal of Financial Economics (2015)
(with U. Rajan and A. Seru)

The Private Returns to Public Office
Journal of Political Economy (2014)
(with F. Schulz and R. Fisman)

Access to Collateral and Corporate Debt Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Journal of Finance (2013)

Lender Screening and the Role of Securitization: Evidence from Prime and Subprime Mortgage Markets
Review of Financial Studies (2012)
(with B. Keys and A. Seru)

Did Securitization Lead to Lax Screening? Evidence from Subprime Loans
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2010)
(with B. Keys, T.Mukherjee and A. Seru)

How Law Affects Lending
Review of Financial Studies (2010)
(with R. Haselmann and K. Pistor)

Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from Prime and Subprime Mortgage Markets
Journal of Financial Economics (2010)
(with T. Piskorski and A. Seru)

Statistical Default Models and Incentives
American Economic Review P&P (2010)
(with U. Rajan and A. Seru)

Financial Regulation and Securitization: Evidence from Subprime Loans
Journal of Monetary Economics (2009)
(with B. Keys, T. Mukherjee and A. Seru)

The Unintended Effects of SOXJournal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2011)
(with V. Chhaochharia and C. Otto)

On the Distribution of Lin-Kerninghan Travelling Salesman Tour Lengths
European Journal of Operations Research (2008)
(with U. Palekar)