Ajay Palvia

Financial Economist

Ajay Palvia is a Financial Economist in the Policy Analysis Division of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

Published Works

"Banks and Managerial Discipline: Does Regulatory Monitoring Play a Role?", The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 51, Issue 1, February 2011, Pages 56-68

"Limits to Relative Performance Evaluation: Evidence from Bank Executive Turnover" (with Irina Barakova), Journal of Financial Economic Policy, 2(3), 2010.

"Managerial, Turnover, Regulatory Oversight, and Performance: Evidence from Community Banks," in International Research Handbook for Banking and Governance, James Barth, Chen Lin, and Clas Wihlborg (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming 2012.

Working Papers

"Adjusting for Sample Selection Bias in Acquisition Credit Scoring Models" (with Irina Barakova and Dennis Glennon), April 2010.

"Are Regulatory Management Evaluations Informative About Bank Performance?" (with Lewis Gaul), July  2011.

"Corporate Loan and Government Debt Maturity: Evidence from the Corporate Loan Market" (with Lewis Gaul and Pinar Uysal), September 2011.

“Do Female CEOs and Chairs Constrain Bank Risk-Taking? Evidence from the Financial Crisis.” (With Emilia Peni and Sami Vähämaa), September 2011

"Executive Loans, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Banks" (with Yaniv Grinstein), April 2010.

"Re-Examining the Role of Market Discipline for Bank Supervision: Evidence from the Subprime Crisis" (with Dilip Patro), January 2011.