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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 an Associate 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
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.
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.
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
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.
5. 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
6.
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.
7.
Conglomerates
and industry distress, 2011, (joint with Kanghzhen Xie), Review of Financial Studies 24 (11),
3642-3687.
8.
Private
control benefits and earnings management: Evidence from insider controlled
firms, 2012, (joint with Sudarshan Jayaraman), Journal of Accounting Research, 50 (1),
117-157.
9.
Asset
liquidity, and stock liquidity, 2012, (joint with Mikhail
Pevzner and Ohad Kadan), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 47(2), 333-364.
10. Do public equity markets matter in emerging economies?
Evidence from India, 2013, (joint with Todd Gormley), Review of Finance 5, 1517-1615.
11. Duration
of executive compensation,
2014, (joint with Todd Milbourn, Fenghua Song, and Anjan
Thakor), Journal of Finance 69 (6),
2777–2817.
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.
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.
14.
Do
Debt Contract Enforcement Costs Affect Financing and Asset Structure?,
2016, (joint with Abhiroop Mukherjee and Manpreet Singh), Review of Financial Studies 29 (10), 2774–2813.
15.
Compensation
goals and firm performance, 2017, (joint with Benjamin Bennett, Carr Bettis
and Todd Milbourn), Journal of Financial
Economics 124 (2), 307-330.
16. Managerial
compensation in multi-division firms, 2016,
(joint with Shashwat Alok) Management
Science 64 (6) 2856-2874.
17. Comp Targets
that Work, 2017, joint with Todd
Milbourn and John Horn, Harvard Business Review, 95 (5), 102 –
107.
18. The Effect of Health Insurance on Home Payment Delinquency: Evidence from ACA Marketplace Subsidies, 2018, (joint with Emily Gallaghar and Michal-Grinstein Weiss) Journal of Public Economics 172, 67-83.
19. Medicaid and
Household Savings Behavior: New Evidence from tax refunds, 2018, joint with
Emily Gallaghar, Michal-Grinstein Weiss and Jorge Sabat.
(forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics)