Published Papers

"Capital Structure and Dividend Irrelevance with Asymmetric Information," with Philip H. Dybvig,
(1991) Review of Financial Studies 4, 201-219.


"Optimal Financial Instruments" (1991) Journal of Finance 46, 1645-1663.


"Auctions of Divisible Goods: On the Rationale for the Treasury Experiment" with Kerry Back,
(1993) Review of Financial Studies 6, 733-764.
           Reprinted in The Economic Theory of Auctions edited by Paul Klemperer, Elgar Publishing Ltd., U.K.


"Optimal Bankruptcy Law and Firm-Specific Investments" with Elazar Berkovitch and Ronen Israel,
(1997) European Economic Review 41, 487-497.


"Bankruptcy, Warrants and State Contingent Changes in the Ownership of Control" with Avner Kalay,
(1997) Journal of Financial Intermediation 6, 347-379.


"The Design of Bankruptcy Law: A Case for Management Bias in Bankruptcy Reorganizations" with Elazar Berkovitch
and Ronen Israel, (1998) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 33, 441-464.


"Do Incentives Matter? Managerial Contracts for Dual-Purpose Funds" with James S. Schallheim and Michael L. Lemmon,
(2000) Journal of Political Economy 108, 273-299.


"Auctions of Divisible Goods with Endogenous Supply," with Kerry Back, (2001) Economics Letters 73, 29-34.


"Auctioning Divisible Goods," with Jim Wang, (2002) Economic Theory 19, 673-705.


"Competition and Cooperation in Divisible Good Auctions: An Experimental Examination," with Orly Sade and Charles Schnitzlein,
(2006) Review of Financial Studies, 19, 195 - 235.


"When Less (Potential Demand) Is More (Revenue): Asymmetric Bidding Capacities in Divisible Good Auctions," with Orly Sade and Charles Schnitzlein,
(2006), Review of Finance, 10, 389 - 416.


Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure," with Michael R. Roberts and Michael L. Lemmon,
Journal of Finance, forthcoming.