RESEARCH

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Working Papers:

The joint decision between investment, financing, and accounting discretion: Evidence from a structural model, with T. Ruchti.
The effect of paid preparer competition on individual tax avoidance, with A. Finley and J. Rosett
Credit derivatives and firm investment, with F. Yu.
Strategic selling and fair valuation when there is a gap between rating agencies’ and regulatory agencies’ credit risk assessment, with M. Koo and T. Le.

Papers in Progress:

Measuring the magnitude and contracting value of accounting discretion: Evidence from a structural model.
Debt contract strictness and credit cycles.
Defensive credit agreement language, with A. Badawi.

Published Papers:

Corporate credit derivatives, with F. Yu (forthcoming, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance)
Credit rating agency and equity analysts' adjustments to GAAP earnings, 2017, with V. Muslu, Contemporary Accounting Research 34: 783-817.
Credit derivatives and analyst behavior, with J. Qiu and F. Yu, 2016,The Accounting Review, 91: 1315-1343.
Disclosure-derived financial statement adjustments in equity valuation, with J. Rosett and A. Ganguly, 2014, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies 17: 1-39.
Political connections and accounting quality under high expropriation risk, with R. Sucre and M. Weidenmier, 2014, European Accounting Review 23: 485-517.
The direct relevance of accounting information for credit default swap pricing, 2014, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 38: 1096-1122.
Financial statement recasting and credit risk assessment, with J. Rosett and A. Ganguly, 2014, Accounting and Finance 54: 47-82.
The impact of equity misvaluation on predictive accuracy of bankruptcy models, 2014, with W. Wongsunwai, Journal of Fixed Income 24: 5-18.
A liquidity-based explanation of convertible arbitrage alphas, 2011, with G. Chacko and B. Dharan, Journal of Fixed Income, 20: 28-43.