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Michael J. Barclay was affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research spanned multiple areas within business and economics, focusing particularly on corporate finance and governance.

Their academic output included work published in notable venues such as the Journal of applied corporate finance, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the SSRN Electronic Journal.

Recent papers authored by Barclay covered a range of topics and publication years:

  • The Capital Structure Puzzle: Another Look at the Evidence (2020), Journal of applied corporate finance
  • Seasoned equity offerings and corporate financial management (2020), Journal of Corporate Finance
  • Brief of Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation In Support of Petitioner in Google v. Oracle, U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-956 (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist collaborated with several researchers frequently, including Clifford Smith, Fangjian Fu, Clifford W. Smith, and Corynne McSherry.

Barclay's main fields of study comprised:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, they focused on subfields such as:

  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Strategy and Management
  • Marketing
  • Information Systems

The primary research topics addressed in Barclay's work included:

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Copyright and Intellectual Property
  • Digital Rights Management and Security

Best Publications

  • The Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford W. Smith

  • Private benefits from control of public corporations

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford G. Holderness

  • Stealth trading and volatility. Which trades move prices

    Michael J. Barclay;Jerold B. Warner

  • THE DETERMINANTS OF CORPORATE LEVERAGE AND DIVIDEND POLICIES

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford W. Smith;Ross L. Watts

  • Negotiated Block Trades and Corporate Control

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford G. Holderness

  • The joint determination of leverage and maturity

    Michael J. Barclay;Leslie M. Marx;Clifford W. Smith

  • Corporate payout policy

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford W. Smith

  • Price Discovery and Trading After Hours

    Michael J. Barclay;Terrence Hendershott

  • On the debt capacity of growth options

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford W. Smith;Erwan Morellec

  • Announcement effects of new equity issues and the use of intraday price data

    Michael J Barclay;Robert H Litzenberger

  • Private information, trading volume, and stock-return variances

    Michael J. Barclay;Robert H. Litzenberger;Jerold B. Warner

  • Private placements and managerial entrenchment

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford G. Holderness;Dennis P. Sheehan

  • The Priority Structure of Corporate Liabilities

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford W. Smith

  • Effects of Market Reform on the Trading Costs and Depths of Nasdaq Stocks

    Michael J. Barclay;William G. Christie;Jeffrey H. Harris;Eugene Kandel

  • Private benefits from block ownership and discounts on closed-end funds

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford G. Holderness;Jeffrey Pontiff

  • Competition among Trading Venues: Information and Trading on Electronic Communications Networks

    Michael J. Barclay;Terrence Hendershott;D. Timothy McCormick

  • The Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford W. Smith

  • The Capital Structure Puzzle: Another Look at the Evidence

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford W. Smith

  • Dividends, Taxes, and Common Stock Prices: The Ex-Dividend Day Behavior of Common Stock Prices Before the Income Tax

    Michael J. Barclay

  • The Capital Structure Puzzle: The Evidence Revisited

    Michael J. Barclay;Clifford W. Smith

  • On the Debt Capacity of Growth Options

    Michael J. Barclay;Erwan Morellec;Clifford W. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Clifford W. Smith
Clifford W. Smith University of Rochester
Terrence Hendershott
Terrence Hendershott University of California, Berkeley
Erwan Morellec
Erwan Morellec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Paul H. Schultz
Paul H. Schultz University of Notre Dame
Michael S. Weisbach
Michael S. Weisbach The Ohio State University

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