Research

In a paper published in the Journal of Management, Assistant Professor of Management Scott Kuban finds that when a CEO’s political ideology diverges from that of the governing party, their firms tend to reduce lobbying activities.

Amanda Heitz won the Financial Management Association’s 2022 Best Paper Award in Financial Markets & Institutions.

Stephanie Cheng and Yuchen Zhang’s paper “‘High’ Innovators? Marijuana Legalization and Regional Innovation,” co-authored with Pengkai Lin of Singapore Management University and Yinliang Tan of the University of Houston, has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management.

Nishad Kapadia’s paper “One Vol to Rule Them All: Common Volatility Dynamics in Factor Returns,” co-authored with Matthew Linn (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Bradley Paye (Virginia Tech), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Oleg Gredil’s paper “Finding Fortune: How Do Institutional Investors Pick Asset Managers?” co-authored with Greg Brown (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Preetesh Kantak (Indiana University Bloomington), has been accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies.