Working Papers:
Human Capital, Competition, and Mobility in the Managerial Labor Market with John Barry (Rice) and Lin Zhao (Duke)
- Presentations (including by coauthor): FIRS (2025), MARC (2025), ITAM Finance Conference (2025), BOCA-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (2024), Lone Star Finance Conference (2024)
Opportunistic Borrowing Before Default? A New Test Using Multiple Delinquent Credit Cards with Constantinos Antoniou (Warwick), Michaela Pagel (WashU), and Neil Stewart (Warwick)
Reputation, Entrenchment, and Dynamic Managerial Incentives, Submitted
- Presentations: SAET (upcoming), Southern Economics Association (2023), Kenan-Flagler Business School (2023), WashU Economics Graduate Student Conference (2023), Olin Business School (2023), Duke Fuqua Business School (2023), Carolina Regional Empirical Economics Day (2023), University of Mississippi (2023), Triangle Applied Microeconomics Conference (2023), Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (2023), Southern Economics Association (2022), Carolina Regional Empirical Economics Day (2022)
Insider CEOs: Lucky or Good? with Andrew Capron (UNC), Andrés Hincapié (UNC), and Barton Hamilton (WashU), Submitted
- Presentations: Southern Economics Association (2023)
The Bright Side of Nepotism? Family CEOs, Turnover, and Firm Performance with Andrés Hincapié (UNC) and Barton Hamilton (WashU), Submitted
- Presentations (including by coauthor): DITE (2023), Duke Economics Department (2023), Southern Economics Association (2022), WashU Economics Department (2022), Carolina Regional Empirical Economics Day (2022)
Works in Progress:
Monitoring Externalities under Common Ownership
CEO Entrenchment and Activist Investors with Mohit Desai (UNC)
Entrepreneurship in Black and White: Life Cycle Differences in Entrepreneurship between Black and White Males with Andrés Hincapié (UNC), Barton Hamilton (WashU), Prasanthi Ramakrishnan (SMU), and Siddhartha Sanghi (Amazon)
The Wage Premium for Employee Noncompete Agreements with Brian Albrecht (ICLE), Andrew Capron (UNC), and Dan Gilman (ICLE)
CEO Entrenchment and Activist Investors with Mohit Desai (UNC)
Entrepreneurship in Black and White: Life Cycle Differences in Entrepreneurship between Black and White Males with Andrés Hincapié (UNC), Barton Hamilton (WashU), Prasanthi Ramakrishnan (SMU), and Siddhartha Sanghi (Amazon)
The Wage Premium for Employee Noncompete Agreements with Brian Albrecht (ICLE), Andrew Capron (UNC), and Dan Gilman (ICLE)
Other Publications:
Family Firms: A Blueprint for Managing the Shareholder vs. Stakeholder Debate? with Paige Ouimet (UNC) and Stephen Miller (UNC)
- Media Coverage: WRAL TechWire