Published Papers

• “The Technology of Risk and Return, Comment,” American Economic Review, June, 1981. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Self-Selection and the Pricing of Bank Services, An Analysis of the Market for Bank Loan Commitments and the Role of Compensating Balance Requirements,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, December, 1981. Download article from JSTOR.
• “An Analysis of Bank Loan Rate Indexation,” Journal of Finance, June, 1982. Download article from JSTOR.
• “An Analysis of the Impact of Deposit Rate Ceilings on the Market Values of Thrift Institutions,” (with L.Y. Dann), Journal of Finance, December, 1982. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Pricing Alternatives for Loan Commitments: A Note,” Journal of Bank Research, Winter, 1983.
• “An Analysis of Intra-industry Differences in the Effect of Regulation: The Case of Deposit Rate Ceilings,” Journal of Monetary Economics, August, 1983.
• “Is Illiquidity a Bar to Buying Small Cap Stocks?” (with R.O. Edmister), Journal of Portfolio Management, Summer, 1983.
• “The Relation Between Common Stocks Returns, Trading Activity and Market Value,” (with R.O. Edmister), Journal of Finance, September, 1983. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Regulation and the Determination of Bank Capital Changes: A Note,” (with J.K. Dietrich), Journal of Finance, December, 1983. Download article from JSTOR.
• “An Analysis of the Effect of State Acquisition Laws on Managerial Efficiency; The Case of Bank Holding Company Acquisitions,” Journal of Law and Economics, April, 1984. Abstracted in Regulation as “Do Corporate Takeovers Keep Managements Lean?” May/June, 1984.
• “The Effect of Interest Rate Changes on the Common Stock Returns of Financial Institutions,” (with M.J. Flannery) Journal of Finance, September, 1984. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Market Evidence on the Effective Maturity of Bank Assets and Liabilities,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, (with M.J. Flannery), November, 1984. Presented at the American Finance Association meetings in San Francisco, December, 1983. Download article from JSTOR.
• “A VARMA Analysis of the Causal Relations Among Stock Returns, Real Output and Nominal Interest Rates,” Journal of Finance, (with S. Koreisha and M. Partch), Dec, 1985. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Access to Deposit Insurance, Insolvency Rules and the Stock Returns of Financial Institutions,” Journal of Financial Economics, (with J. Brickley), July, 1986.
• “The Takeover Market, Corporate Board Composition, and Ownership Structure: The Case of Banking,” (with J. Brickley), Journal of Law and Economics, April, 1987.
• “Returns to Acquirers and Competition in the Acquisition Market: The Case of Banking,” (with P. Wier), Journal of Political Economy, April, 1987. Download article from JSTOR.
• “An Analysis of FDIC Failed Bank Auctions,” (with P. Wier), Journal of Monetary Economics, July, 1987.
• “Some Evidence on the Uniqueness of Bank Loans,” Journal of Financial Economics, December, 1987.
• “The Use of Loan Sales and Standby Letters of Credits by Commercial Banks,” Journal of Monetary Economics, November, 1988.
• “Empirical Evidence on Implicit Guarantees of Bank Foreign Loan Exposure,” Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, April, 1989.
• “Heterogeneous Creditors and the Market Value of Bank LDC Loan Portfolios,” Journal of Monetary Economics, December, 1990.
• “Borrowing Relationships, Intermediation and the Cost of Issuing Public Securities,” (with P. Wier), Journal of Financial Economics, November, 1990.
• “The Losses Realized in Bank Failures,” Journal of Finance, September, 1991. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Relationship-Specific Assets and the Pricing of Underwriter Services,” Journal of Finance, December, 1992. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Management and Organizational Changes in Banking: A Comparison of Regulatory Intervention with Private Creditor Actions in Nonbank Firms,” (with J. Houston), Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1993.
• “The Information Content of Distressed Restructurings involving Public and Private Debt Claims,” (with D. Brown and B. Mooradian), Journal of Financial Economics, February, 1993.
• “Asset Sales by Financially Distress Firms,” (with D. Brown and R.M. Mooradian), Journal of Corporate Finance, April, 1994.
• “When Do Banks Take Equity in Debt Restructurings?” Review of Financial Studies, Winter, 1995. Download article from JSTOR.
• “CEO Compensation and Bank Risk: Is Compensation Structured in Banking Structured to Promote Risk-Taking?”, Journal of Monetary Economics, November, 1995.
• “Bank Debt Restructurings and the Composition of Exchange Offers in Financial Distress,” Journal of Finance, June, 1996. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Bank Information Monopolies and the Mix of Private and Public Debt Claims,” (with J. Houston), Journal of Finance, December, 1996. Download article from JSTOR.
• “Capital Market Frictions and the Role of Internal Capital Markets in Banking,” (with J. Houston and D. Marcus), Journal of Financial Economics, November, 1997.
• “Do Bank Internal Capital Markets Promote Lending?,” (with J. Houston), Journal of Banking and Finance, November,1998.
• “Where Do Merger Gains Come From? Bank Mergers From the Perspective of Insiders and Outsiders.” (with J. Houston and M. Ryngaert), Journal of Financial Economics, May 2001.
• “Do Relationships Have Limits? Banking Relationships, Financial Constraints and Investment,” (with J. Houston), Journal of Business, July, 2001.
• “Do Banks Provide Financial Slack?” (with C. Hadlock), Journal of Finance, June, 2002.
• “What a Difference a Month Makes: Stock Analyst Valuations Following Initial Public Offerings,” (with J. Karceski and J. Houston), March, 2006, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
• “Investor Monitoring and Differences in Mutual Fund Performance,” (with J. Karceski), Journal of Banking and Finance, 2006.
• “Strength of Analyst Coverage Following IPOs,” (with J. Karceski), October, 2006, Journal of Financial Economics.
• “Banks and Bubbles: How Good are Bankers at Spotting Winners?,” (with L. Gonzalez), October, 2007, Journal of Financial Economics.
• “The Role of Private Equity Group Reputation in LBO Financing,” (with C. Demiroglu), Journal of Financial Economics, May, 2010.
• “The Information Content of Bank Loan Covenants”, (with C. Demiroglu), Review of Financial Studies, October, 2010.
• “The Use of Bank Lines of Credit in Corporate Liquidity Management: A Review of the Empirical Evidence,” (with C. Demiroglu), Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011.
• “Bank Lending Standards and Access to Lines of Credit,” (with C. Demiroglu and A. Kizilaslan), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, September, 2012.
• “How Important is Having Skin in the Game? Originator-Sponsor Affiliation and Losses on Mortgage Banked Securities,” (with C. Demiroglu), Review of Financial Studies, November, 2012.
• “Asset Specificity, Industry Driven Recovery Risk and Loan Pricing,” (with A. Kizilaslan), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, October, 2014.
• “State Foreclosure Laws and the Incidence of Mortgage Default,” (with C. Demiroglu and E. Dudley, Journal of Law and Economics, February, 2014.
• “Bank Loans and Troubled Debt Restructurings,” (with C. Demiroglu), Journal of Financial Economics, October, 2015
• “The Determinants of Long-Term Corporate Debt Issuances,” (with D.C. Badoer), Journal of Finance, February, 2017.
• “Indicators of Collateral Misreporting,” (with C. Demiroglu), Management Science, December, 2016.
• “Capital Structure Changes Around IPOs,” (with E. Dudley), Critical Finance Review, March, 2018.
• “Ratings Quality and Borrowing Choice,” (with D.C. Badoer and C. Demiroglu), Journal of Finance, Forthcoming.
• “Priority Spreading of Corporate Debt,” (with D.C. Badoer and E. Dudley), Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming.
• “I Can See Clearly Now: Salience and the Impact of Disclosure Requirements, ” (with D.C. Badoer and C. Costello), Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming.