Research

Publications

[1] Duration of Executive Compensation and Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt

(with Xudong Fu and Tian Tang)

Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 73, 2022

[2] CEO Incentive Alignment: Intensity and Time Horizon

(with Julie Huang)

Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, Volume 23, 2022

[3] Technology Spillovers and the Duration of Executive Compensation

(with Thomas R. Kubick and Kevin Tseng)

Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 131, 2021

[4] Short-Termist CEO Compensation in Speculative Markets: A Controlled Experiment 

(with Yen-Cheng Chang, Yu-Siang Su, and Kevin Tseng)

Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 38, 2021

Fubon Paper Award, Taiwan Finance Association

Semifinalist for Best Paper in Corporate Finance, Financial Management Association 

[5] The External Effects of Bank Executive Pay: Liquidity Creation and Systemic Risk

(with Robert DeYoung)

Journal of Financial Intermediation, Volume 47, 2021 

[6] Client Workplace Environment and Corporate Audits

(with Adi Masli, Felix Meschke, and James Guthrie)

Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Volume  36, 2017

Media Coverage: KU Today; Phys 

[7] Family Firms, Employee Satisfaction, and Corporate Performance

(with Pingshu Li, Felix Meschke, and James Guthrie)

Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 34, 2015

Semifinalist for Best Paper in Corporate Finance, Financial Management Association 

John O. Tollefson Best Paper Award, University of Kansas

Media Coverage: The Wall Street Journal; Wired; KU Today; Phys; 6News Lawrence; Glassdoor; Paychex; HRE Online

Working Papers

[8] Are Sophisticated Traders Better Informed When Trading Family Firms?

(with Ferhat Akbas and Felix Meschke)

[9] Do Better Connected Executives Have Longer Incentive Horizons?

Semifinalist for Best Paper in Corporate Finance, Financial Management Association

[10] Internal CEO Approval and External Reporting Quality

(with Adi Masli, Felix Meschke, and James Guthrie)

[11] Local Peers and CEO Incentives

(with Felix Meschke)

Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Award, Southern Finance Association

[12] Thumbs-up or Thumbs-down? CEO Risk-taking and Employees' CEO Approval

(with Pingshu Li, James Guthrie, and Felix Meschke)