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Publications

 

"Endogeneity in Empirical Corporate Finance," forthcoming in George Constantinides, Milton Harris, and Rene Stulz, eds. Handbook of the Economics of Finance Volume 2, Elsevier. (with Michael R. Roberts).

"Treating Measurement Error in Tobin's q," September 2011, forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies. (with Tim Erickson)

"Threshold Events and Identification: A Study of Cash Shortfalls," July 2011, forthcoming, Journal of Finance. (with Tor-Erik Bakke)

"Shareholder-Manager Disagreement and Corporate Investment, " Review of Finance 15 (2011): 277-300. (with Anjan V. Thakor)

"Capital Structure Dynamics and Transitory Debt," Journal of Financial Economics 99 (2011): 235–261. (with Harry DeAngelo and Linda DeAngelo, lead article)

"Which Firms Follow the Market? An Analysis of Corporate Investment Decisions,"Review of Financial Studies 23 (2010): 1941–1980. (with Tor-Erik Bakke)

Investment-Based Expected Stock Returns," Journal of Political Economy 117 (2009): 1105-1139. (with Laura Xiaolei Liu and Lu Zhang, formerly titled “Regularities”) Gauss Data and Programs for the GMM Estimation

"The Corporate Propensity to Save," Journal of Finance 64 (2009): 1729-1766. (with Leigh A. Riddick) Online Appendices

"What Can Cash Shortfalls and Windfalls Tell Us About Finance Constraints?," in Giorgio Calcagnini and Enrico Saltari (eds.) The Economics of Imperfect Markets, Springer, New York, 2010.

"How Costly is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation," Journal of Finance. 62 (2007): 1705-1745. (with Christopher Hennessy) Winner of the 2007 Brattle Prize for Distinguished Paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance.

"Spin-offs, Divestitures, and Conglomerate Investment," Review of Financial Studies 20 (2007): 557-595. (with Gonul Colak)

"Testing Q Theory with Financing Frictions," Journal of Financial Economics 83 (2007): 691-717 (with Christopher Hennessy and Amnon Levy)

"On the Accuracy of Different Measures of Q," Financial Management 35 (2006): 5-33. (with Timothy Erickson, lead article)

"External Finance Constraints and the Intertemporal Pattern of Intermittent Investment," Journal of Financial Economics 81 (2006): 467-502. (lead article)

Financial Constraints Risk," Review of Financial Studies 19 (2006): 531-559. (with Guojun Wu)

"Proxy Quality Thresholds: Theory and Applications." Finance Research Letters 2 (2005): 131-151 (with Timothy Erickson)

"Debt Dynamics," Journal of Finance 60 (2005): 1129-1165. (with Christopher Hennessy) Winner of the 2005 Brattle Prize for Outstanding Paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance.

"Two-Step GMM Estimation of the Errors-in-Variables Model using High-Order Moments," Econometric Theory 18 (2002): 776-799. (with Timothy Erickson)

"Is It Inefficient Investment that Causes the Diversification Discount?" Journal of Finance 56 (2001): 1667-92. (Nominated for the Brattle Prize)

"Fixed Costs of Adjustment, Coordination, and Industry Investment," Review of Economics and Statistics 83 (2001): 628-637. (with Joanne Doyle)

"Measurement Error and the Relationship between Investment and q," Journal of Political Economy 108 (2000): 1027-57. (with Timothy Erickson) Also, Erratum, Journal of Political Economy 118 (2010): 1252-57.

"Why Do Investment Euler Equations Fail?" Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 16 (1998): 469-478.

"The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment: Some Stylized Facts," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 28 (1996): 64-83. (with John V. Leahy)

"Internal Finance and Firm Investment," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 27 (1995): 683-701. (with R. Glenn Hubbard and Anil K. Kashyap)

"Problems with Identifying Adjustment Costs from Regressions of Investment on Q," Economics Letters 46 (1994): 339-344.

"Debt, Liquidity Constraints, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from Panel Data," Journal of Finance 47 (1992): 1425-1460.

"Investment and Financial Asset Accumulation," Journal of Financial Intermediation 1 (1991): 307-334.

"U.S. Corporate Leverage: Developments in 1987 and 1988," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1 (1990): 255-278. (with Ben S. Bernanke and John Y. Campbell)