Ongoing Research

The purpose of this page is to enable researchers to find others who are working on the same or similar topics. Most researchers can be contacted through the websites of the schools with which they are affiliated. If you need to contact a researcher not listed on the relevant website, email Doug Irion and he will forward your email to the email address we have for the researcher.

Research Topic	Last Name	First Name	Institution	Affiliation	Request Date
363 sale delays	Behrens	James	UCLA School of Law	Law Student	1/9/2011
363 sales	Chung	Joo-Hee	Harvard Law School	Law Student	1/5/2011
363 sales	Kidder	Sammuel	UCLA School of Law	Law Student	1/31/2011
363 sales	Raykin	Alla	Emory Law School	Law Student	11/4/2011
Absolute priority	Firestone	Simon	Federal Reserve Board	Economist	4/5/2011
Absolute priority	Bharath	Sreedhar	Arizona State University	Professor	3/24/2011
Accounting implications of bankruptcy	Ton	Karen	University of Southern California	PhD Candidate	5/25/2011
Accounting reporting	Yang	Ziyun	University of Houston	Graduate Student	5/29/2011
Airline bankruptcy	Srinivasan	Kruthika	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical university	Graduate Student	2/16/2011
Airline deregulation	Rose	Nancy	MIT	Professor	11/29/2011
Asbestos bankruptcy	Alarcon	Lisa	UCLA School of Law	Law Student	1/15/2011
Attorneys	Qian	Yiming	University of Iowa	Professor	3/29/2011
Audit quality financial companies	Yezegel	Ari	Bentley University	Professor	11/7/2011
Auditor Opinions	Bills	Ken	University of Oklahoma	Graduate Student	8/17/2011
Auditor Opinions	Ahmed	Jir	Northeastern Illinois University	Graduate Student	11/16/2011
Auditor Opinions	Blevins	Emily	University of Tennessee	PhD Candidate	9/21/2011
Auditor Opinions	Kim	Seil	NYU Stern School of Business	PhD Candidate	10/17/2011
Bank failure and contagion	Suh	Jung-Hyun	NYU Stern School of Business	PhD Candidate	10/14/2011
Bankruptcy and industry competitors	Zhu	Zhongyan	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Assistant Professor	9/27/2011
Bankruptcy announcements	Oneil	Harris	East Carolina University	Assistant Professor	9/10/2011
Bankruptcy causes	Yuanchen	Chang	Deparment of Finance, National Chengchi University	Professor	3/9/2011
Bankruptcy choice	Luzzetti	Matthew	University of California Los Angeles	Graduate Student	5/26/2011
Bankruptcy choice	Furchtgott	Michael	University of California, San Diego	Graduate Student	9/28/2011
Bankruptcy code and firm investment policies	Pryshchepa	Oksana	Lancaster University	PhD Candidate	7/6/2011
Bankruptcy distributions	Wood	Andrew	UCLA School of Law	Law Student	1/14/2011
Bankruptcy refiling	Whitehead	David	UCLA School of Law	Law Student	1/14/2011
Bankruptcy risks	Chandia	Karina	Rutgers University	Graduate Student	3/24/2011
Bankruptcy risks	Li	Bin	Duke University Fuqua School of Business	PhD Candidate	3/17/2011
Bankruptcy risks	Czerney	Keith	University of Illinois	PhD Candidate	4/28/2011
Bankruptcy sales	Fine	Toni	Fordham Law School	Professor	3/30/2011
Bankruptcy strategy and IP strategy	Leone	Maria Isabella	LUMSA University	Lecturer	7/13/2011
Board of directors	Chang	Kiyoung	University South Florida Sarasota-Manatee	Assistant Professor	5/19/2011
Board of directors	Xinde	Zhang	University of North Carolina	Graduate Student	1/28/2011
Bond prices	Badawi	Adam	Washington University in St. Louis	Associate Professor	8/4/2011
Breakup fees	Blickley	Christopher	US Bankruptcy Court	Law Clerk	1/5/2012
Capital structure	Tamm	Christopher	University of Missouri	Visiting Professor	1/21/2011
Capital structure, post-bankruptcy	Iverson	Benjamin	Harvard Business School	PhD Candidate	7/12/2011
Capital structure, post-bankruptcy	Tao	Chen	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	PhD Candidate	9/27/2011
Carbon dependency	DaCosta	Marc	University of California, Irvine	PhD Candidate	11/15/2011
Casebook	Scarberry	Mark	Pepperdine Univ. School of Law	Professor	4/23/2011
Cash Flow Sensitivity	Hass	Lars	Lancaster University	Assistant Professor	11/11/2011
CEO career post-bankruptcy	Hoang	Ngoc Giang	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Graduate Student	4/18/2011
CEO career post-bankruptcy	Serfling	Matthew	University of Arizona	PhD Candidate	6/3/2011
CEO career post-bankruptcy	Wernicke	Georg	University of Mannheim	PhD Candidate	7/11/2011
CEO decisions post-bankruptcy	Moritz	Failenschmid	University of Mannheim	Graduate Student	9/1/2011
Chinese bankruptcy	Jiang	Xianfeng	Institute of Finance	Analyst	3/9/2011
Collective bargaining and distress costs	Anginer	Deniz	World Bank Research Group	Financial Economist Researcher	8/23/2011
Commercial loan defaults	Dumas	Christopher	University of North Carolina-Wilmington	Professor	6/29/2011
Complex systems	Lee	Jae Woo	Inha University	Professor	7/28/2011
Contagion	Wu	Haibin	University of Alberta	PhD Candidate	5/2/2011
Contagion across markets	Kwok	Simon	Cornell University	PhD Candidate	12/29/2011
Control investors	Thomas	A. Lloyd	Cas Business School, City University	PhD Candidate	5/8/2011
Corporate governance	Roman	Raluca	University of South Carolina	PhD Candidate	4/7/2011
Corporate governance	Lloyd	Cynthia	Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne	Professor	7/19/2011
Corporate governance during bankruptcy	Downey	Clara	University of Texas at Brownsville	Assistant Professor	8/8/2011
Corporate governance during bankruptcy	Keys	Phyllis	Morgan State University	Professor	10/25/2011
Corporate regulation	Coleman	Les	The University of Melbourne	Senior Lecturer	1/18/2012
Credit ratings	Bauzaites	Simona	London South Bank University	Graduate Student	11/20/2011
Credit ratings	Tang	Leo	Rutgers	PhD Candidate	12/5/2011
Debt covenants	Qi	Yaxuan	Concordia University	Assistant Professor	10/26/2011
Debt decoupling	Chikomwe	Julius	Duisenberg School of Finance	Student	8/1/2011
Debt equity conflicts	Lee	Jeongmin	University of Maryland	Graduate Student	2/17/2011
Debt renegotiation	Dimitrova	Milka	University of British Columbia	PhD Candidate	6/28/2011
Default Probability	Yang	LingLing	King's College London	Graduate Student	7/24/2011
Default probability	Han	Joong Ho	KDI School of Public Policy and management	Professor	4/6/2011
Distressed companies	Lejeune	Pierre	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Graduate Student	1/28/2011
Earnings manipulations	Martel	Jocelyn	ESSEC Business School	Professor	7/12/2011
Earnings quality	Lee	Hakyin	Baruch College, CUNY	PhD Candidate	1/11/2012
Economic factors	Liu	Patrick	UCLA School of Law	Law Student	1/10/2011
Efficiency of Chapter 11	Zhou	Simiao	Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	Assistant Professor	5/25/2011
Ex-ante investment policy	Gucbilmez	Ufuk	University of Edinburgh	Assistant Professor	10/5/2011
Executive Compensation	Yilmaz	Gokhan	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	PhD Candidate	4/19/2011
Executive Compensation	Oh	Seungjoon	University of Michigan, Ross School of Business	PhD Candidate	9/1/2011
Financial company bankruptcy	Gottfried	Nathan	U.S. Government Accountability Office	Analyst	3/15/2011
Firm performance	Li	Ying	University of Washington Bothell	Assistant Professor	5/19/2011
Forum shopping	Morris	Mary	Northwestern University, Kellogg	PhD Candidate	4/18/2011
Forum Shopping	Williams	Margaret	Federal Judicial Center	Research Associate	1/14/2011
Hedge funds	Wang	Wei	Queen's University	Professor	1/31/2011
Incentives in bankruptcy	Jenkins	Mark	University of Pennsylvania	Assistant Professor	8/1/2011
Indirect bankruptcy costs	Park	Jongsik	Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business	Graduate Student	9/19/2011
Industry churning	Greenbaum	Bruce	University of Texas at Austin	PhD Candidate	2/28/2011
Institutional investor's role	Kecskes	Ambrus	Virginia Tech, Pamplin College of Business	Assistant Professor	10/11/2011
Institutional investor's role	Wang	Rui	City University of Hong Kong	PhD Candidate	10/4/2011
Insurance companies	Suarez	Julio	University of Chicago Harris School	Graduate Student	1/11/2011
Intra-industry contagion	Le	Nhan	Leeds School of Business	PhD Candidate	8/17/2011
Intra-industry contagion	Lian	Yili	Baruch College, CUNY	PhD Candidate	10/8/2011
Inventory development	Hoberg	Kai	University of Cologne	Professor	10/26/2011
IPO's	Posner	David	U.S. Department of Energy	Researcher	10/24/2011
Legislative input	Van Bergem	Rutger	George Mason University	PhD Candidate	9/19/2011
Legislative input	Zorn	Christopher	Pennsylvania State University	Professor	11/8/2011
Management turnover	Alanis	Emmanuel	Texas A&M University	PhD Candidate	11/28/2011
Management turnover	Chung	Ji-Woong	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Professor	12/19/2011
Monetary policy	Landoni	Mattia	Columbia Business School	PhD Candidate	3/22/2011
New technology firms	Mithani	Murad	Rensselaer Lally School of Management	PhD Candidate	1/21/2011
Post-bankruptcy performance	Ramirez	Gabriel	Kennesaw State University	Professor	3/28/2011
Post-bankruptcy performance, prepacks	Henry	Brian	University of Kansas	PhD Candidate	5/10/2011
Post-Reorg Equities	Sihelnik	Stephen	Johns Hopkins University	Undergraduate student	11/5/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Ngo	Thanh	University of Texas - Pan American	Assistant Professor	6/7/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Ullah	Saif	Concordia University	Assistant Professor	6/23/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Hazarika	Sonali	Baruch College, CUNY	Assistant Professor	7/8/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Trinkle	Bradley	Mississippi State University	Assistant Professor	9/1/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Seri	Raffaello	Università degli Studi dell'Insubria	Assistant Professor	9/5/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Kraft	Pepa	NYU Stern School of Business	Assistant Professor	10/14/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Traczykowski	JÄTdrzej	Warsaw School of Economics	Graduate Student	2/26/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Krzeminska	Marta	Warsaw School of Economics	Graduate Student	3/15/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Kolluri	Pramod	University of Wolverhampton Business School	Graduate Student	3/23/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Ericson	Peter	Copenhagen Business School	Graduate Student	3/25/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Castagnolo	Fernando	University of Warwick	Graduate Student	6/16/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Li	Wei Ming	National Taipei University of Technology	Graduate Student	7/25/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Karolyi	Stephen	Yale School of Management	Graduate student	9/12/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Danėnas	Paulius	Vilnius University	PhD Candidate	1/14/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Chan	David	Rutgers University	PhD Candidate	3/11/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	White	Roger	University of Pittsburgh	PhD Candidate	5/23/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Subasi	Musa	University of Texas at Dallas	PhD Candidate	7/14/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Yu	Chun Yuan	National Chiao Tung University	PhD Candidate	7/26/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Owrutsky	Philip	Harvard	PhD Candidate	8/5/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Brown	Richard	Temple University	PhD Candidate	12/19/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Yasin	Alan	Johnson School at Cornell University	PhD Candidate	12/20/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Ricci	Cecilia	Montclair State University	Professor	1/21/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Gonçalves	Edson	Getulio Vargas Foundation - Grad Schl of Economics	Professor	2/17/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Williams	Christopher	University of Michigan	Professor	3/17/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Murfin	Justin	Yale	Professor	11/22/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Kwon	He-Boong	Park University	Professor	11/26/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Zane	Daniel	The College of New Jersey	Undergraduate student	4/3/2011
Predicting bankruptcy	Falk-Wallace	Richard	Columbia University	Undergraduate student	11/12/2011
Predicting bankruptcy?	Lu	Chenfei	University of Chicago Booth School of Business	PhD Candidate	6/24/2011
Predicting non-bankruptcy	Wagner	Hannes	Bocconi University	Professor	2/16/2011
Product quality and pricing	Sheen	Albert	Harvard Business School	Professor	3/29/2011
Professional fees	Souza	Douglas	UCLA School of Law	Law Student	1/9/2011
Puerto Rico bankruptcy	Alvarez	Marta	University of Puerto Rico	Professor	10/2/2011
Pulp and paper bankruptcies	McCarthy	Patrick	Georgia Institute of Technology	Professor	2/16/2011
Regulatory enforcement	Jung	Juergen	Towson University	Professor	5/10/2011
Religious environment	Yost	Kevin	Auburn University	Professor	1/18/2012
Reorganization plan forecasts	Dambra	Mike	University of Rochester (Simon School)	PhD Candidate	12/14/2011
Retail bankruptcy	Kara	Bruce	University of Toledo College of Law	Professor	6/9/2011
Role of accounting	Ton	Karen	University of Southern California	PhD Candidate	10/10/2011
Sale options	Martos-Vila	Marc	University of California, Los Angeles	Assistant Professor	9/23/2011
Seasonality	Hayag	Brian	UCLA School of Law	Law Student	1/16/2011
Securities class action	Bai	Lynn	University of Cincinnati	Professor	7/11/2011
Stakeholder welfare	Shi	Guifeng	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Lecturer	1/19/2012
Stakeholder welfare	Jiao	Yawen	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Professor	6/1/2011
Supplier performance	Pathak	Surya	University of Washington	Assistant Professor	7/28/2011
Supply chain networks	Yuen	Rachel	University of Washginton, Bothell	Graduate Student	3/4/2011
Supply shocks	Caskurlu	Tolga	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	PhD Candidate	7/5/2011
Trucking industry bankruptcies	Kuiate	Christian	University of Houston	PhD Candidate	10/1/2011
Unfunded pension obligations	Rahaman	Mohammad	Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University	Assistant Professor	8/25/2011
Valuation of Debt	Tsai	Wen-Hsin	National Taiwan University	PhD Candidate	8/17/2011