The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Book (with D. Scott Lee and Gerald S. Martin), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 43 (September 2008), 581-612.
The Consequences to Managers for Cooking the Books (with D. Scott Lee and Gerald S. Martin), Journal of Financial Economics, 88 (May 2008), 193-215.
The Determinants of Corporate Board Size and Composition: Empirical Evidence (with Audra L. Boone, Laura Casares Field, and Charu G. Raheja), Journal of Financial Economics 85:1 (July 2007), 66-101.
Do Pills Poison Operating Performance? (with Morris G. Danielson), Journal of Corporate Finance, 12 (June 2006), 536-559.
The Reputational Penalties for Environmental Violations: Empirical Evidence (with John R. Lott, Jr. and Eric Wehrly), Journal of Law and Economics 68 (October 2005), 653-675.
Review of The Econometrics of Corporate Governance Studies by Sanjai Bhagat and Richard H. Jefferis, Jr., Journal of Economic Literature 63 (March 2005), 152-154.
Information Precision, Transaction Costs, and Trading Volume (with Orie E. Barron), Journal of Banking and Finance 28:6 (June 2004): 1207-1498.
Takeover Defenses of IPO Firms (with Laura Casares Field), Journal of Finance 57:5 (October 2002): 1857-1889.
Public Versus Private Initiative in Arctic Exploration: The Effects of Incentives and Organizational Structure, Journal of Political Economy 109:1 (February 2001): 38-78.
Defense Procurement Fraud, Penalties, and Contractor Influence (with D. Scott Lee and Valaria Vendrzyk), Journal of Political Economy 107:4 (August 1999): 809-842.
On the Determinants and Importance of Punitive Damages Awards (with John R. Lott, Jr.), Journal of Law and Economics 62:1 (April 1999): 527-573.
Management Turnover and Corporate Governance Changes Following the Revelation of Criminal Fraud (with Anup Agrawal and Jeffrey Jaffe), Journal of Law and Economics, 62:1 (April 1999): 309-342.
Corporate Finance and Corporate Control: An Empirical Research Agenda, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 155:1 (March 1999): 239-246.
On the Uses of Corporate Governance Provisions (with Morris G. Danielson), Journal of Corporate Finance 4:4 (1998): 347-371.
Corporate Governance and Shareholder Initiatives: Empirical Evidence (with Paul H. Malatesta and Ralph A. Walkling), Journal of Financial Economics 42:3 (1996): 365-395.