Research Interests Empirical Corporate Finance, Labor Economics, Corporate Governance Curriculum Vitae Contact Information Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University 366 Sage Hall, 114 East Ave. Ithaca, NY 14583 Email: Phone: (607) 255-8335

Published Papers

• The Effects of the Length of the Tax-Loss Carryback Period on Tax Receipts and Corporate Marginal Tax Rates, National Tax Journal 62, 2009, 413-427, with John Graham; NBER Working Paper 15177.
  
  
• Hedge Fund Activism: A Review, Foundations and Trends in Finance, 4:3, 2010, 185-246, with Alon Brav and Wei Jiang.
• Hedge Fund Activism: Updated Tables and Figures

Working Papers and Works-in-Progress

• Labor Market Size and Firm Capital Structure: Evidence from Large Plant Openings, May 2013.


• The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Industry Concentration, with Alon Brav and Wei Jiang, May 2013; NBER Working Paper 17517.
  
  
• How Uncertainty Affects Corporate Investment: The Asset Redeployability Channel, with Howard Kung, January 2013.
  
  
• Human Capital Loss in Corporate Bankruptcy, with John Graham, Si Li, and Jiaping Qiu, March 2013.
  
  
• Simulating Corporate Marginal Income Tax Rates and Implications for Corporate Debt Policy, with John Graham, 2012.
  
  
• Bargaining with the CEO and the Board of Directors, with John Graham, 2012.

Other Publications

• Hedge Fund Activism, with Alon Brav and Wei Jiang, Chapter 7 in Research Handbook on Hedge Funds, Private Equity and Alternative Investments, Edited by Phoebus Athanassiou, 2012.