Research Interests

• Theoretical and Empirical Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance and Control
• Venture Capital and Private Equity
• Applied Game Theory and Industrial Organization

Selected Publications

• “The size of venture capitalists’ portfolios: theory and evidence” (with Evgeny Lyandres and DouglasCumming), Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 13, Issue 4, September 2007, Pages 564-590
• “The Impact of the Options Backdating Scandal on Shareholders” (with Gregg Jarrell) – third round review at Journal of Accounting and Economics
• “A Theory of Strategic Mergers” (with Evgeny Lyandres and Alexei Zhdanov), 2007 – first round review at Review of Financial Studies
• “Strategic mergers in rising and declining industries” (with Evgeny Lyandres and Alexei Zhdanov), 2006
• “Determinants and consequences of merger synergies forecasts disclosure”, 2006
• “The effect of merger financing, relative equity size, and insiders’ ownership on the credibility of synergies forecasts”, 2006
• “The information content of insiders’ merger synergies forecasts” (job market paper), 2006
• “The size of venture capitalists’ portfolios: theory and evidence” (with Evgeny Lyandres and Douglas Cumming), 2004
• “Bidder motives in takeover contests”, 2003
• “Timing of horizontal mergers and investments in cost-reducing technologies”, 2002
• “Merger waves and learning: are managers responding to a market signal?”, 2001

Degrees

• Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Rochester,  2006
• M.S. in Applied Economics, University of Rochester,  2002
• B.A. in International Economics, University of Naples, 1998