As a LRM, I used to be amazed by the productivity of MM. In some big conferences, 5+ of his papers were on the program every year. At SSRN, he has a list of more than 100 papers (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=125471 ). At ResearchGate, the number is 143. As I know, a number of of his working papers are even not listed on SSRN. One of his students told me said that he often product 10+ working paper every year.
How is this possible given that editors/referees are so demanding and he graduated only in 1998? He can seriously work on each paper? In that cohort, Ljungvist (graduated in 1996) only has less than 60 papers on SSRN and Antoinette Schoar has Less than 40 papers. Both are much more influential then MM.
Thus, most likely his slaves wrote the paper and he just signs his name on it.
In addition, while he wrote 10+ papers every year, he only publish two papers at top 3 journals every year since 2011 (see the list below) and only two JF paper in his whole career so far. A failure rate of 80% is very high among active researchers. In this sense, he is such an opportunist.
Finally, I really hope he and other CEO-like researchers can stop the mass-production of papers using slaves and give our independent LRM a chance to publish and to survive.
Journal Article Author Year Volume
The Review of
Financial Studies
The invisible hand of short selling: does short
selling discipline earnings management?
Massimo Massa INSEAD
Bohui Zhang UNSW
Australia
Hong Zhang Tsinghua
University
Hong Zhang INSEAD
2015 28
Journal of Finance Outsourcing in the international mutual fund
industry: an equilibrium view
Oleg Chuprinin UNSW
Australia
Massimo Massa INSEAD
David Schumacher McGill
University
2015 70
The Review of
Financial Studies
The variety of maturities offered by firms and
institutional investment in corporate bonds
Nishant Dass Georgia
Institute of Technology
Massimo Massa INSEAD
2014 27
The Review of
Financial Studies
Mutual funds and information diffusion: the role
of countrylevel
governance
Chunmei Lin Erasmus
University
Massimo Massa INSEAD
Hong Zhang INSEAD
Hong Zhang Tsinghua
University
2014 27
Journal of Financial
Economics
Alliances and corporate governance Andriy Bodnaruk University
of Notre Dame
Massimo Massa INSEAD
Massimo Massa Centre
for Economic Policy Research
Andrei Simonov Centre
for Economic Policy Research
Andrei Simonov Michigan
State University
Andrei Simonov Gaida
Institute for Economic Polcy
2013 107
Journal of Financial
Economics
Supply uncertainty of the bond investor base
and the leverage of the firm
Massimo Massa INSEAD
Ayako Yasuda University
of California at Davis
Lei Zhang Nanyang
Technological University
2013 110
Journal of Financial
Economics
The role of institutional investors in propagating
the crisis of 2007ã¢ï