Sauder School of Business




Recent Publications


Forthcoming

Harjoat Bhamra, Lars-Alexander Kuehn, and Ilya A. Strebulaev
“The Aggregate Dynamics of Capital Structrure and Macroeconomic Risk”
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

Harjoat S. Bhamra, Lars-Alexander Kuehn, and Ilya A. Strebulaev
“The Levered Equity Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A Unified Framework”
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

Phelim Boyle, Shui Feng, Weidong Tian, and Tan Wang
Robust Stochastic Discount Factors
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

Erinn B. Broshko and Kai Li
Corporate Governance Requirements in Canada and the United States: A Legal and Empirical Comparison of the Principles-based and Rules-based Approaches
Canadian Investment Review, forthcoming

Laurent Calvet and Adlai Fisher
Multifrequency News and Stock Returns
Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Laurent Calvet, Adlai Fisher, and Samuel Thompson
Volatility Comovement: A Multifrequency Approach
Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming

Murray Carlson, Zeigham Khokher, and Sheridan Titman
Equilibrium Exhaustible Resource Price Dynamics
Journal of Finance, forthcoming

Huafeng (Jason) Chen, Marcin Kacperczyk, and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
“Do Non-financial Stakeholders Affect the Pricing of Risky Debt? Evidence from Unionized Workers”
Review of Finance, forthcoming

Xia Chen, Jarrad Harford, and Kai Li
Monitoring: Which Institutions Matter?
Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Jaksa Cvitanic, Ali Lazrak, Lionel Martellini, and Fernando Zapatero
Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Parameter Uncertainty and the Economic Value of Analysts' Recommendations
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

Marcin Kacperczyk, Clemens Sialm, and Lu Zheng
Industry Concentration and Mutual Fund Performance
Journal of Investment Management, forthcoming

Marcin Kacperczyk, Clemens Sialm, and Lu Zheng
Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

Mark Kamstra, Lisa Kramer, and Maurice Levi
“A careful re-examination of seasonality in international stock markets: Comment on sentiment and stock returns”
Journal of Banking and Finance, forthcoming

Dimitri Vayanos and Tan Wang
Search and Endogenous Concentration of Liquidity in Asset Markets
Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming


2012

Huafeng (Jason) Chen and Shaojun Chen
“Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Cannot Be a Good Measure of Financial Constraints: Evidence from the Time Series”
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 103, 2012, 393-410


2011

Huafeng (Jason) Chen
“Firm Life Expectancy and the Heterogeneity of the Book-to-Market Effect”
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 100, 2011, 402-423.

Huafeng (Jason) Chen, Marcin Kacperczyk, and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
“Labor Unions, Operating Flexibility, and the Cost of Equity”
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 46, 2011, 25-58.

Huafeng (Jason) Chen, Hernan Ortiz-Molina, and Siliang Zhang
“Average Stock Variance and Market Returns: Evidence of Time-Varying Predictability at the Daily Frequency”
Journal of Portfolio Management, Vol. 37, 2011, 86-95


2010

Mark Kamstra, Lisa Kramer, and Maurice Levi
“Effects of Daylight-Saving Time Changes on Stock Market Volatility: a Comment”
Psychological Reports, Vol. 107, No. 3, pp. 877-887

Maurice Levi, Kai Li, and Feng Zhang
“Deal or No Deal: Hormones and the Mergers and Acquisitions Game”
Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 1462-1483


2009

Alan Kraus and Amir Rubin
“Reducing Managers' Incentives to Cannibalize: Managerial Stock Options when Shareholders are Diversified”
Journal of Financial Intermediation, Aug. 2009


2008

M. Martin Boyer and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Career Concerns of Top Executives, Managerial Ownership and CEO Succession
Corporate Governance: An International Review, 16, vol. 3, 2008, 178-193.

Sandy Klasa, William F. Maxwell, and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
“The Strategic Use of Corporate Cash Holdings in Collective Bargaining with Labor Unions”
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 92, 2009, 421-442.


2007

Harjoat S. Bhamra and Raman Uppal
“The Effect of Introducing a Non-Redundant Deerivative on the Volatility of Stock-Market Returns When Agents Differ in Risk Aversion”
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, 2009, 2303-2330.

Lorenzo Garlappi, Raman Uppal, and Tan Wang
Portfolio Selection with Parameter and Model Uncertainty: A Multi-Prior Approach
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, 2007, pp.41-81

Jarrad Harford and Kai Li
Decoupling CEO Wealth and Firm Performance: The Case of Acquiring CEOs
Journal of Finance, Vol. 62, 2007, 917-949

Marcin Kacperczyk and Amit Seru
“Fund Manager Use of Public Information: New Evidence on Managerial Skills”
Journal of Finance, Vol. 62, 2007, 485-528

Kai Li
The Growth in Equity Market Size and Trading Activity: An International Study
Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 14, 2007, 59-90

Kai Li, Hernan Ortiz-Molina, and Xinlei Zhao
Do Shareholder Rights Affect Institutional Investment Decisions? Evidence from Dual-Class Firms
Financial Management, Winter 2008, 713-745.

Kai Li and N.R. Prabhala
Self-Selection Models in Corporate Finance
Chapter 2 in: Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance, Handbooks in Finance Series, Elsevier/North Holland, 2007

William McNally and Kai Li
The Information Content of Canadian Open Market Share Repurchase Announcements
Managerial Finance, Vol. 33, 2007, 65-80

Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Executive Compensation and Capital Structure: The Effects of Convertible Debt and Straight Debt
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 43, 2007, 69-93.

Hernan Ortiz-Molina and Maria F. Penas
Lending to Small Businesses: The Role of Loan Maturity in Addressing Information Problems
Small Business Economics, 30, vol. 4, 361-383.


2006

Harjoat S. Bhamra and Raman Uppal
The Role of Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Substitution in Dynamic Consumption-Portfolio Choice with Recursive Utility
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 30, 2006, 967-991.

Murray Carlson, Adlai Fisher, and Ron Giammarino
Corporate Investment and Asset Price Dynamics: Implications for SEO Event Studies and Long-Run Performance
Journal of Finance, Vol. 61, 2006,1009-1034.

Burton Hollifield and Alan Kraus
“Defining Bad News: Changes in Return Distributions that Decrease Risky Asset Demand”
Management Science, Jul. 2009, 1227-1236

Alan Kraus and Jacob Sagi
“Asset Pricing with Unforeseen Contingencies”
Journal of Financial Economics, Nov. 2006, 417-453

Alan Kraus and Jacob Sagi
“Inter-temporal Preference for Flexibility and Risky Choice”
Journal of Mathematical Economics, Feb. 2006, 696-709

Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Top-Management Incentives and the Pricing of Corporate Public Debt
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 41, 2006, 317-340.


2005

Amir Barnea, Robert Heinkel, and Alan Kraus
“Green Investors and Corporate Investment”
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 16, 2005, 332-346.

H. Henry Cao, Tan Wang, and Harold H. Zhang
“Model Uncertainty, Limited Market Participation, and Asset Prices”
Review of Financial Studies, Vol.18, 2005, 1219 - 1251.

Albert S. Dexter, Maurice Levi, and Barrie Nault
“International Trade and the Connection between Capacity and Inflation”
Review of International Economics, Vol. 13, 2005, 699-708.

Ron Giammarino and Ed Nosal
Loggers versus Campers: Compensation for the Taking of Property Rights
The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol. 21, 2005, 136-152.

Michael A. Goldberg, Robert Heinkel, and Maurice Levi
Foreign Direct Investment: The Human Dimension
Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 24, 2005, 913-934.

Marcin Kacperczyk, Clemens Sialm, and Lu Zheng
“On the Industry Concentration of Actively Managed Mutual Funds”
Journal of Finance, Vol. 60, 2005,1983-2012.

Jun Liu, Jun Pan, and Tan Wang
“An Equilibrium Model of Rare-Event Premia and Its Implication for Option Smirks”
Review of Financial Studies, Vol.18, 2005, 131 - 164.



 
 
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