2024-11-03
This week I’ll be in Kazakhstan on a recruiting trip. I’ve put together a few slides to highlight the topics that I’m grappling with in my research and teach...
I teach Advanced Managerial Accounting at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I research the relationships that form within and across the boundaries of the firm, how stakeholders use contracts to formalize these relationships, and how those contracts shape behavior.
Before taking my current position in Hong Kong, I taught at NYU - Shanghai where I was an Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow.
Recent Posts
2024-10-29
The first lesson is: Do not obey in advance.
2024-10-15
Times New Roman in Latex and Markdown. Someone is making you do this.
2024-07-13
Easy subsample comparisons with esttab.
2024-02-22
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a recent working paper exploring regulatory uncertainty and financial contracts at the Hong Kong University of Science and Techno...
2024-01-30
2023 Retrospective.
2024-01-18
I’ll be in Denver, CO on the 18th and 19th discussing two excellent papers.
2023-11-07
I’m giving a talk at the South West University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu. The paper I’ll be presenting is a relatively new exploration of regulator...
2023-10-31
I’m giving a talk at Hong Kong Baptist University, which will introduce a new paper about regulatory uncertainty and financial contracts. Slides are posted; ...
2023-10-24
The stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA).
2023-08-06
At AAA this week I’ll be discussing three interesting papers: Shielding from the Pandemic: COVID-19 Exclusion Provision in Debt Contracts The Effects of...
2023-07-04
My paper “Pay for Prudence” with Yadav Gopalan, John Donovan, and Salman Arif is now available online at the Journal of Accounting and Economics.
2023-04-19
Batch renaming in bash.
2023-04-05
My coauthor, Scott Dyreng, will be presenting our paper with Elia Ferracuti Renegotiation Costs and Debt Contract Design at the Ohio State University on the...
2022-11-06
I’ll be in Kazakhstan with the undergraduate recruiting team from the 7th to the 12th of November recruiting students. We will be giving a public talk in Alm...
2022-10-10
Installing .ado files in general–psacalc2 in particular.
2022-09-03
On 2202.09.03 I’ll be presenting a talk based on my paper Individual Mortgage Lending, Public Corruption, Race and Gender: Evidence from Local Corruption Cra...
2022-08-31
This post is the first in a series of posts based on answers to questions I get frequently via email.
2022-07-19
I’m always hunting for ways to make my work more efficient, error free, and reproducible. I’m particularly obsessed with pipelines that eliminate inconsisten...
2022-06-05
My coauthor, Yadav Gopalan, will be giving a presentation based on our paper “Pay for Prudence” (with Salman Arif, and John Donovan) at the 2022 Colorado Sum...
2202-06-02
I’ll be giving a presentation based on my paper “Pay for Prudence” (with Salman Arif, John Donovan, and Yadav Gopalan) at the 2022 Virginia Tech Accounting R...
2202-03-11
I’ll be giving a talk based on my recently published paper “Financial Shocks to Lenders and the Composition of Financial Covenants” (with Hans Christensen, ...
2022-03-07
A simple SIR model of Hong Kong’s Omicron outbreak.
2022-02-24-ukr.md
The invasion1 of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia2 has solidified two simple things in my mind.3 I’m posting this on the data of the beginning of Pu...
2022-02-15
While modeling disclosure timing for Political Information Flow and Management Guidance, I felt like the rough and ready reduced-form regression approach tha...
2022-01-13
foreground a stopped job in zsh:
2021-11-22
Indicating fixed effects with reghdfe is relatively straightforward if you use estfe. However, when you try to report the first stage of estimates from ivreg...
2021-11-04
Using the excellent eventstudyinteract this morning and needed to pipe the results to esttab rather than coefplot. A quick Google lead to this which seemed m...
2021-10-27
I’ll be giving a talk at the Yale Conference on Law and Macroeconomics about the effect of local corruption laws on inequality in mortgage markets, based on ...
2021-06-10
“Financial Shocks to Lenders and the Composition of Financial Covenants” my paper with Hans Christensen, Daniele Macciocchi, and Valeri Nikolaev is now in ...
2021-03-13
undoing a wayword unzip
2021-05-07
I’ll be giving a workshop at the SMU School of Accounting about how firms use option grants to address executives’ reputation concerns.
2021-04-13
The ‘box’ in The Box by Marc Levinson is a shipping container.
2021-03-26
Stata has some sharp edges. This the second it a series of posts about the things that Stata does by default that you probably don’t want it to do!
2021-03-13
Stata has some sharp edges.
2021-02-26
My co-author Yadav Gopalan will be presenting our paper “Pay for Prudence”, written with Salman Arif, John Donovan, at the 33rd Annual Accounting Research Co...
2021-02-16
Safe fixed effect indication in Stata.
2021-01-08
A really simple “todo” list command line tool.
2021-04-13
Learning some ‘C’ is worth your time.