“ESG, operational efficiency, and operational performance: Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts,” with Ramya R. Aroul and Sriram Villupuram, forthcoming, Managerial Finance.
“Evaluating information technology investments: Does following executives’ trades help?” with Taha Havakhor, Rajiv Sabherwal, and Zachary Steelman, forthcoming, MIS Quarterly.
“FEAR Index, city characteristics and housing returns,” with Ramya Aroul and Sergiy Saydometov, Real Estate Economics 50, 2022, 173–205. (Featured in “Study Findings from University of Texas Arlington Provide New Insights into Real Estate Economics,” Economics Week, October 9, 2020.)
“The Q-theory model: Evidence from the U.S. market and non-U.S. markets,” with Larry Lockwood and Wikrom Prombutr, Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting 58, 2020, 1–33.
“Sentiment and its asymmetric effect on housing returns,” with Ramya Aroul and Sergiy Saydometov, Review of Financial Economics 38, 2020, 580–600.
“Does stardom affect the informativeness of a CEO’s trades?” with Mohammad Riaz Uddin, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 46 (9) and (10), 2019, 1171–91. (Featured in “Trading Stock Like a Star CEO Is No Route to Riches, Study Finds,” Bloomberg.com, October 26, 2019; Invited to write a blog about the paper on The FinReg Blog, which is sponsored by Duke University School of Law’s Global Financial Markets Center. Posted on November 13, 2019; Listed on Social Sciences Research Network’s Top Ten download lists in Research Methods & Methodology, November 2019, and Other Financial Economics, December 2019.)
“How does strategic alignment affect firm performance? The roles of information technology investment and environmental uncertainty,” with Taha Havakhor, Rajiv Sabherwal, and Zachary Steelman, MIS Quarterly 43(2), 2019, 453–474.
“Performance consequences of information technology investments: Implications of emphasizing new or current information technologies,” with Taha Havakhor, Rajiv Sabherwal, and Zachary Steelman, Information Systems Research 30(1), 2019, 204–218.
“Relationships between information technology and other investments: A contingent interaction model,” with Taha Havakhor, Rajiv Sabherwal, and Zachary Steelman, Information Systems Research 30(1), 2019, 291–305.
“Overconfidence among options traders,” with Han-Sheng Chen, Review of Financial Economics 37(1), 2019, 61–91. (Listed on Social Sciences Research Network’s Top Ten download lists for Behavioral Finance (Microeconomics) and Behavioral and Experimental Finance, December 2019.)
“Are dividends an outcome or a substitute of external corporate governance? International evidence based on product market competition,” with Bobby Alexander and Stephen P. Ferris, Advances in Financial Economics 20, 2018, 57-83. (Listed on Social Sciences Research Network’s Top Ten download lists for Country Differences in Leverage Practices, International Accounting, European Finance, and International Corporate Finance, February, March, and April 2017.)
“Political party affiliation of the president, majority in Congress, and sin stock returns,” with Salil Sarkar and Mohammad Riaz Uddin, Financial Management 46(1), 2017, 3–31. (Lead article; Awarded Open Access worth $3,000 by the publisher; Highlighted in “Popular Content on Politics and Finance from FMA’s Online Library,” August 2020; Financial Management Editors’ Best Paper Award, Spring 2017; Recognized in a special session in the FMA European Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, 2017; Selected for a virtual issue on Politics and Finance, curated by Professor Christopher Malloy, Harvard Business School, 2017; Featured in The Conversation, November 9, 2016. This article was republished in Huffington Post, Houston Chronicle, Latest Nigerian News, Quartz, Raw Story, Seattle Post Intelligencer, and SFGATE. Also featured in Fast Company, November 10, 2016, and Citywire, February 16, 2017.)
“The young and the restless: An international study of CEO age and acquisitions,” with Stephen P. Ferris, Narayanan Jayaraman, and Teng Zhang, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 43(9) & (10), 2016, 1385–1419.
“CEO overconfidence and international merger and acquisition activity,” with Stephen P. Ferris and Narayanan Jayaraman, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 48 (1), 2013, 137–164. (Featured in Washington Post, Business News Daily, Inc. Magazine, and e! Science News; Excerpted in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation; Listed on Social Sciences Research Network’s Top Ten download lists for abstracts published in the last 60 days in several topics on Corporate Governance Network, Economics Research Network, and Financial Economics Network, February and March 2012, and January 2014.)
“Overconfidence, corporate governance, and global CEO turnover,” with Hyung-Suk Choi, Stephen P. Ferris, and Narayanan Jayaraman, Advances in Financial Economics 16, 2013, 101–136.
“Regulation Fair Disclosure and individual investors: Evidence from stock repurchase announcements,” with Helen Hurwitz, Salil Sarkar, and Xu Wang, Journal of Emerging Financial Markets 2 (1), 2011, 11–28.
“Do Internet stock message boards influence trading? Evidence from heavily discussed stocks with no fundamental news,” with Salil Sarkar and Ying Zhang, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 38, 2011, 1209–1237.
“Catering effects in corporate dividend policy: The international evidence,” with Stephen P. Ferris and Narayanan Jayaraman, Journal of Banking and Finance 33, 2009, 1730–1738. (A semifinalist for one of five best paper awards at the 2009 FMA Annual Meeting in Reno, NV. Also selected for one of the “top” sessions at the meeting; Listed on Social Sciences Research Network’s Top Ten download list for abstracts published in the last 60 days in Country Differences in Leverage Practices, December 2010.)
“French and U.S. trading of cross-listed stocks around the U.S. decimalization: Volume, spreads, and depth effects,” with Bing-Xuan Lin, David Michayluk, and Henry Oppenheimer, International Review of Financial Analysis 18 (5), 2009, 223–231. (Lead article.)
“Concentrated shareholders as substitutes for outside analysts,” with Stephen D. Smith, Corporate Governance: An International Review 16 (6), 2008, 562–577. (One of the six articles nominated for the Best Paper Award for 2008; Listed on Social Sciences Research Network’s Top Ten download list for abstracts published in the last 60 days in the topic “Experimental and Empirical Studies”, July 2000.)
“Online talk: Does it matter?” with Salil Sarkar and Ying Zhang, Managerial Finance 34 (6), 2008, 423–436.
“How do knowledge management announcements affect firm value? A study of firms pursuing different business strategies,” with Rajiv Sabherwal, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 54 (3), 2007, 409–422. (Lead article.)
“Characteristics and behavior of newly listed firms: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific region,” with Stephen P. Ferris and Narayanan Jayaraman, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money 17 (5), 2007, 420–436.
“The U.S. share of trading volume in cross-listings: Evidence from Canadian stocks,” Financial Review 42 (1), 2007, 23–51. (Findings discussed in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest newspaper, April 22, 2016; and the Globe Advisor, April 23, 2016.)
“Price-end biases in financial products,” with Sajeev Varki, Albert Della Bitta, and Keith Moore, Journal of Product and Brand Management 15 (6), 2006, 394–401.
“Knowledge management using information technology: Determinants of short-term impact on firm value,” with Rajiv Sabherwal, Decision Sciences 36 (4), 2005, 531–567. (Lead article in the published issue and featured article on the journal web site; One of the five finalists for the Decision Sciences Best Paper Award for 2005.)
“Price discovery for cross-listed stocks,” with Cheol S. Eun, Journal of Investment Management 1 (4), 2003, 26–46. (This article is an invited submission of a practitioner version of the paper that appeared in the Journal of Finance.)
“Cross-border listings and price discovery: Evidence from U.S.-listed Canadian stocks,” with Cheol S. Eun, Journal of Finance 58 (2), 2003, 549–575. (Findings discussed in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest newspaper, April 22, 2016; the Globe Advisor, April 23, 2016; and the National Post, a Canadian national daily, March 27, 2003.)
“The competitive effects of U.S. decimalization: Evidence from the U.S.-listed Canadian stocks,” with Henry Oppenheimer, Journal of Banking and Finance 27, 2003, 1883–1910.
“Forecasting exchange rates: Do banks know better?” with Cheol S. Eun, Global Finance Journal 13, 2002, 195–215. (During 2003, this was the eighth most requested article out of all articles that had appeared in the journal.)
“Informed trading around merger announcements: An empirical test using transaction volume and open interest in the options market,” with Melissa B. Frye and Narayanan Jayaraman, Financial Review 38 (2), 2001, 45–74.
“Do country-specific bankruptcy codes determine long-term financial performance? The case of Metallgesellschaft AG and Columbia Gas System,” with Narayanan Jayaraman and Milind Shrikhande, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting 12 (2), 2001, 188–224.
“Predictability and integration of emerging equity markets with the United States: Evidence from closed-end country funds,” International Journal of Finance 12 (4), 2000, 1913–1931.