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INFORMATION Radhakrishnan Gopalan Campus Box 1133 St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Ph: (314) 935-9196 E-mail: gopalan@wustl.edu |
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I am a Professor in the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. I research topics in corporate finance. I do both theory and empirical research. Scroll down for the latest version of my published and forthcoming papers. You can get copies of earlier versions of my papers at my SSRN author page at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=107455. I welcome any comments you may have at gopalan@wustl.edu.
Publications
2006
1. The Entrepreneur's Choice Between Private
and Public Ownership, 2006, (joint with Arnoud W.
A. Boot and Anjan Thakor), Journal of Finance 61(2), 803-836.
2007
2. Affiliated Firms and Financial Support:
Evidence from Indian Business Groups, 2007, (joint
with Vikram Nanda and Amit Seru)
Journal of Financial Economics 86 (3), 759-795.
2008
3. Market Liquidity, Investor
Participation and Managerial Autonomy: Why do Firms Go Private?, 2008, (joint with Arnoud W.A.
Boot and Anjan Thakor) Journal of Finance 63 (4), 2013-2059.
2010
4.
Strategic
Flexibility and the Optimality of Pay for Sector Performance, 2010, (joint
with Todd Milbourn and Fenghua Song), Review of Financial Studies 23,
2060-2098.
2011
5.
Conglomerates and
industry distress, 2011, (joint with Kanghzhen
Xie), Review of Financial Studies 24
(11), 3642-3687.
6. Why do firms form new banking
relationships?, 2011, (joint with Greg Udell and
Vijay Yerramilli), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46 (5), 1335-1365
7.
Does poor performance affect
the reputation of financial intermediaries? Evidence from the loan syndication
market, 2011, (joint with Vikram Nanda and Vijay
Yerramilli), Journal of Finance 66
(6), 2083-2120.
2012
8.
Asset liquidity, and
stock liquidity, 2012, (joint with Mikhail Pevzner
and Ohad Kadan), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 47(2), 333-364.
9.
Private control
benefits and earnings management: Evidence from insider controlled firms,
2012, (joint with Sudarshan Jayaraman), Journal
of Accounting Research, 50 (1), 117-157.
2013
10. Do public equity markets matter in emerging
economies? Evidence from India, 2013, (joint with Todd
Gormley), Review of Finance 5, 1517-1615.
2014
11. Duration of executive compensation, 2014, (joint with Todd Milbourn,
Fenghua Song, and Anjan Thakor), Journal
of Finance 69 (6), 27772817.
12. Debt maturity structure
and credit quality, 2014,
(joint with Fenghua Song and Vijay Yerramilli), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 49 (04), 817-842.
2015
13. Internal capital
markets and dividend policies: Evidence from business groups,
2015, (joint with Vikram Nanda and Amit Seru), Review of Financial Studies 27 (4), 1102-1142.
2016
14. Managerial
compensation in multi-division firms, 2016, (joint with
Shashwat Alok) Management Science 64 (6) 2856-2874.
15.
Do
Debt Contract Enforcement Costs Affect Financing and Asset Structure?,
2016, (joint with Abhiroop Mukherjee and Manpreet Singh), Review
of Financial Studies 29 (10), 27742813.
2017
16. Compensation goals and
firm performance, 2017, (joint with Benjamin Bennett, Carr Bettis and Todd
Milbourn), Journal of Financial Economics
124 (2), 307-330.
17. Comp Targets that Work,
2017, (joint with Todd Milbourn and John Horn), Harvard Business Review, 95 (5), 102
107.
2018
18. The
Effect of Health Insurance on Home Payment Delinquency: Evidence from ACA
Marketplace Subsidies,
2018, (joint with Emily Gallagher and Michal-Grinstein Weiss) Journal of Public Economics 172, 67-83.
2020
19. Medicaid and Household
Savings Behavior: New Evidence from tax refunds, 2020, (joint with
Emily Gallagher, Michal-Grinstein Weiss and Jorge Sabat) (Journal of Financial Economics 136 (2), 523-546)
2021
20. The Role of Deferred Equity Pay in Retaining Managerial Talent, joint with Sheng Huang and Johan Maharjan Contemporary Accounting Review 38(4), 2521-2554.
21. How are bankers paid, joint with Benjamin Bennett and Anjan Thakor Review of Corporate Finance Studies 10(4), 788-812.
22. State minimum wages and employment: Evidence from one million hourly wage workers, 2020, joint with Barton Hamilton, Ankit Kalda and David Sovich, Journal of Labor Economics, 39 (3), 673-707.
23. Home equity and labor income: The role of
constrained mobility, 2021, joint with Barton Hamilton, Ankit Kalda and
David Sovich Review of Financial Studies 34 (10), 46194662.
24. The effect of inversions on corporate governance,
joint with Felipe Cortes and Armando
Gomes Journal of Financial Intermediation 47, 100880.
2022
25. Its
not so Bad: Director Bankruptcy Experience and Corporate Risk Taking, joint
with Ankit Kalda and Todd Gormley (forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics)