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Kayla Freeman

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Finance

Education

  • PhD, Finance, Indiana University, 2019
  • MS, Finance, Indiana University, 2016
  • BS, Finance, Indiana University, 2014

Research Interests

  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Supply chain finance and trade credit
  • Institutional ownership
  • Financial intermediation

Publications

Working Papers

  • “(Don’t) Feed the Mouth that Bites: Trade Credit Strategies Among Rival Customers Sharing Suppliers” with Jie (Jack) He, Han Xia, and Liyan Yang
  • “Social Capital and Interfirm Cooperation: The Impact of a Religious Scandal on Trade Credit” with Quentin Dupont (SSRN Link)
  • “One Sows and Another Reaps: Outsourcing Innovation to Suppliers.”

Journal Articles

  • Freeman, K. M. (2023). Overlapping Ownership Along the Supply Chain. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming). Link to online publication  
  • Freeman, K. M. (2024). The Lender’s Lender: Trade Credit and the Monitoring Role of Banks. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming). Link to online publication
  • Billett, M. T., Freeman, K. M., and Gao, J. (2024). Access to Debt and the Provision of Trade Credit. Management Science (forthcoming). SSRN link