Honors & Awards

• Sharpe award for best paper in 2023 for "Do Cross-Sectional Predictors Contain Systematic Information?". Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 01/01/2024
• Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize in 2023 for "Reusing Natural Experiments". Journal of Finance, 12/31/2023
• Spängler/IQAM award for runner-up for the best Investments Paper for "ETF Arbitrage, Non-Fundamental Demand, and Return Predictability". Review of Finance, 12/31/2021
• Best paper award for "Does Socially Responsible Investing Change Firm Behavior?". Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference, 12/31/2021
• Best paper award for "Does Socially Responsible Investing Change Firm Behavior?". UMass Boston – EM Normandie Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, 12/31/2021
• Brady Faculty Superior Teaching Award. 12/31/2021
• David Eccles Award for Continuous Curiosity. 04/01/2019

Affiliations

• David Eccles School of Business , Associate Professor of Finance, 07/01/2016 - present

In the Media

• Stewards’ inquiry: If investors buy stocks in an index, who watches managers?, The Economist. 11/14/2020. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/11/1...
• Will the SEC Bust Facebook for Drugs?, Matt Levine's Money Stuff. 05/28/2020. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05...
• What the Short Sellers Are Telling Us, The Wall Street Journal. 05/03/2020. https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-shorts-selle...
• The Danger of Reusing Natural Experiments, Marginal Revolution. 09/25/2019. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/...
• US index funds less likely to hold companies to account, Financial Times. 08/04/2019. https://www.ft.com/content/a86411a3-e9db-3ed3-9a55...
• Do Index Funds Monitor?, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. 07/30/2019. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/07/30/do-inde...
• MarketWatch. 07/21/2017. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-what-sho...
• Is Passive Investment Actively Hurting the Economy?, The New Yorker. 03/09/2016. https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/is-pas...
• https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/05/11/short-sellers-news-and-information-processing/, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. 05/11/2012. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/05/11/short-s...
• The Wisdom of the Short-Sellers, The New York Times. 03/27/2010. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/business/28stra...

Professional Service

• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Associate Editor. 01/01/2020 - present
• Management Science. Associate Editor. 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019
• Financial Intermediation Research Society. Program committee member for annual conference. 01/01/2018 - present
• Western Finance Association . Program committee member for Annual Meeting. 01/01/2018 - present
• Financial Management Association. Track chair for the annual conference (in charge of creating sessions and selecting papers for final program. 07/01/2017 - present
• Utah Winter Finance Conference. Program committee member. 01/01/2016 - present
• Colorado Finance Summitt. Program Committee member. 01/01/2015 - present
• European Finance Association . Program Committee member for Annual Conference. 01/01/2014 - present

Internal Service

• Member - David Eccles School of Business Dean Search Committee. 10/01/2021 - 07/01/2022. College service.
• RPT Committee. 07/01/2020 - present. College service.
• Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2020. Department service.
• Coordinator of the Finance Honors Thesis program. 07/01/2017 - present. Department service.
• Member Emma Eccles Jones Funding Committee. 07/01/2017 - present. College service.