Malcolm Wardlaw

Research Interests and Areas of Expertise:

• corporate finance
• banking and institutional capital
• labor and finance

Education

• Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin (2005 — 2011)
• B.A. Rice University (1997 — 2000)
• Winston Churchill High School

Companies

• Assistant Professor Of Finance University of Georgia - Terry College of Business (2019)
• Assistant Professor University of Texas at Dallas (2011 — 2019)
• Visiting Assistant Professor University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business (2017 — 2019)
• Graduate Student - Ph.D. Finance University of Texas at Austin (2005 — 2011)
• Director of Sales & Marketing R7 Solutions (2004 — 2005)
• Business Analyst McKinsey & Company (2000 — 2002)

Research

Published and Forthcoming Papers

• Lowery, Richard, Ari Kang, and Malcolm Wardlaw, “The Costs of Closing Failed Banks: A
  Structural Estimation of Regulatory Incentives.”, Review of Financial Studies (2015)
• Cohn, Jonathan, and Malcolm Wardlaw, “Firm Financing and Workplace Safety.”, Journal of Finance (2016)
• “Measuring Mutual Fund Flow Pressure as Shock to Stock Returns”, Journal of Finance (2020)
• Cohn, Jonathan, Nicole Nestoriak, and Malcolm Wardlaw “Private equity buyouts and workplace safety”, Review of Financial Studies (2020)

Working Papers

• “Complexity, Standardization, and the Design of Loan Agreements”
  (with Bernhard Ganglmair)

• “Depositor Behavior and Institutional Trust: Evidence from the Freedman’s Bank and Trust” (with Virginia Traweek)

• “Count Data in Finance” (with Jonathan Cohn and Zack Liu)

• “Complementarities in Corporate Bond Design” (with Robert Kieschnick)

• “Information, competition, and investment sensitivity to peer stock prices”
  (with Arzu Ozoguz and Michael J. Rebello)

• “Can a Platform-Pays Mechanism reduce Credit Ratings Bias?” (with Indraneel Chakraborty and Alessio Saretto)

• “Investment, Cash Flow, and the Structure of Corporate Debt Covenants”
  (with Richard Lowery)

• "The Impact of Bank Health on the Investment of Its Corporate Borrowers"