Spotlight Publications
The faculty and doctoral students publish regularly in some of the top academic journals around the globe. Here are some spotlight publications, by department.
Finance

Quasi-Insider Shareholder Activism: Corporate Governance at the Periphery of Control

Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2025

Johnathan Cohn, Mitch Towner (PhD ’15), and Aazam Vir

Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2025

Samuel Kruger, John Griffin, and Nicholas Hirschey (PhD ’12)

 

Currency Management by International Fixed Income Mutual Funds

Journal of Finance, 2024

Clemens Sialm and Qifei Zhu (PhD ‘18)

 

The Negativity Bias and Perceived Return Distributions: Evidence from a Pandemic

Journal of Financial Economics, 2023

Laura Stark, Richard Sias (PhD ‘92) and H. Turtle

Self-enforcing Contracts with Persistence

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022

William Fuchs, Jangwoo Lee (PhD ‘20) and Martin Dumav

 

 

 

IROM

Organic waste bans have failed to divert waste away from landfills in the United States—except in Massachusetts
Science (2024)
Fiorentia Zoi Anglou, Robert Evan Sanders, and Ioannis Stamatopoulos

Score Forgetting Distillation: A Swift, Data-Free Method for MU in Diffusion Models
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2025)
Tianqi Chen, Shujian Zhang, and Mingyuan Zhou

A machine learning framework for assessing experts’ decision quality
Management Science (2024), 71
Wanxue Dong, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, and Tomer Geva

Robust Financial Networks
Operations Research (2024), 72(5), pp. 1827-1842
Feihong HuDaniel Mitchell, and Stathis Tompaidis 

Peer influence in the workplace: Evidence from an enterprise digital platform
MIS Quarterly (2024), 48(4), pp. 1559-1574
Haoyuan Liu, Wen Wen, Andrew B. Whinston, and Stephen He

Algorithmic Social Injustice: Antecedents and Mitigations
MIS Quarterly (forthcoming)
Hüseyin Tanriverdi and John-Patrick Olatunji Akinyemi

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