Research

 My research focuses on corporate finance, executive compensation, credit risk, and corporate financial policies. I am particularly interested in how managerial incentives interact with credit markets and shape firms’ financial decisions.

My job market paper, “CEO Incentive Alignment, CDS Markets, and Credit Risk,” examines the relation between CEO incentive structures and credit default swap (CDS) markets. The paper studies how CEO equity- and debt-like incentives relate to CDS coverage and the pricing of credit risk, and how CDS initiation subsequently influences the design of CEO compensation. More broadly, my research examines the interaction between managerial incentives, financial markets, and corporate decision-making.

My other research projects examine cybersecurity risk and corporate asset sales, CEO turnover and debt policy, asset allocation, and financial innovation. I am also a Graduate Research Assistant on a funded research project examining the tokenization of callable and convertible corporate debt and its implications for valuation and risk.

My research has been published in the Journal of International Finance and Economics, Accounting and Auditing with Applications, and the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences, with additional work currently under review and in progress.