My general research interests are in archival financial accounting. I am especially interested in studying topics related to political economy and sustainability in the capital market using textual analysis and natural language processing.
Working papers (* indicates presentation by coauthor)
Lobbying for Accounting Legislation (Dissertation)
Dissertation committee: Sudipta Basu (Chair), Dmitri Byzalov, Enrique Gomez, and Wei Wang
Presentation: AAA Annual Meeting (2024), Fox and Haskayne Accounting Conference (2024)
Buy, Baby, Buy: Environmental Mergers and Acquisitions (with Sudipta Basu and Wei Wang)
Presentation: AAA FARS Midyear Meeting (2025), JAAF Symposium on ESG (2024), AAA Annual Meeting (2024), CSEAR North America (2024), AAA Sustainability, ESG, and Accounting Conference (2024), AAA IAS Midyear Meeting (2024), Hawaii Accounting Research Conference* (2024), Temple University* (2023, 2024)
Rhetorical Contests in Environmental and Social Proposals in Proxy Statements (with Sudipta Basu and Todd Schifeling)
Revise and resubmit at Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
Presentation: CSEAR North America (2024), University of Newcastle* (2023), McMaster Accounting Research Symposium* (2023), AAA Joint Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions (2022), CAAA Annual Conference (2022), Temple University (2022)
Consumer Product Recalls: Reputational Damage and Strategic Timing of Announcements (with Sudipta Basu, Dmitri Byzalov, and Xueming Luo)
Presentation: Haskayne and Fox Accounting Conference (2023), Temple University (2022)