Publications
Does Regulatory Jurisdiction Affect the Quality of Investment-Adviser Regulation? with Ben Charoenwong and Tarik Umar, American Economic Review, Oct 2019
Social Connections with COVID-19-Affected Areas Increase Compliance with Mobility Restrictions with Ben Charoenwong and Vesa Pursiainen, Science Advances, Nov 2020
Crowd-judging on Two-sided Platforms: An Analysis of In-group Bias (2022) with Alex Yang and Angela Zhang (Management Science)
Stress Testing Banks' Digital Capabilities: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) with Mingzhu Tai, Vesa Pursiainen, Chen Lin, (JFQA)
Bargaining Power in the Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from Licensing Contract Terms (2022) with Gaurav Kankanhalli (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies)
Capital Budgeting, Uncertainty, and Misallocation (2023) with Ben Charoenwong, Yosuke Kimura Eugene Tan (Journal of Financial Economics)
Presentations: AEA 2022, Asian Econometric Society 2021, ABFER 2021, 11th Rimini Macro-Finance, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum 2021, CICM 2021, NASMES 2021, ITAM Finance Conference 2021, VMACS Junior Conference, Brock University, University of Toronto
RegTech: Technology-Driven Compliance and its Effects on Profitability, Operations, and Market Structure (2023) with Ben Charoenwong, Andrew Sutherland and Zachary Kowaleski (Journal of Financial Economics)
Presentations: Columbia, Duke, MIT, OSU, Notre Dame, Villanova, UT Austin, RFS-GSU Fintech Conference, FARS 2022, APCFOW, MFA, HKU, City University Fintech Conference, NTU, NUS, ABFER
The Paradox of Innovation Non-Disclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts (2022) with Gaurav Kankanhalli and Kenneth Merkley (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)
Presentations: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzen, University of Hong Kong, Cornell University, Hong Kong Juniors Conference, NBER-AEIA 2018, AFA 2019, FIRS 2019
Working papers
Institutional Investor Attention (2022) with Yukun Liu and Ben Matthies (R&R)
Presentations: NBER Behavioral Finance, Notre Dame, University of Cincinatti, University of Florida, ITAM, WFA
Managing Expectations and Corporate Financial Policy (2022) with Yosuke Kimura and Ben Charoenwong (R&R)
Presentations: AFA 2021, SFS Asia-Pacific 2019, Greater Bay Area Finance 2019, 2020 Japanese Economic Association Meeting, HKU, Renmin University, SAIF, CityUHK
Measuring Remote Knowledge Work Using Big Data (2022) w/ Ben Matthies and Alex Yuskavage
Presentations: Asian Corporate finance Online Workshop, NBER IT and Digitization (Lightning round), Hong Kong Microeconomics Workshop, NUS. Stanford Remote Work Conference, SFS Cavalcade 2023, Young Finance Scholars Symposium, Dartmouth College, CICF, NBER "The Work from Home Shock to Labor Markets", Rochester, Yale, Cornell, WFA, SKKU Winter Fintech Workshop
Paying Attention to ESG Matters: Evidence from Big Data Analytics (2022) with Andrew Karolyi ,Wendi Huang
Presentations: SFS Cavalcade, AFA, CKGSB, City University of HK, UT Dallas, Boca Conference, CICF, Conference for CSR, Economy and the Financial Markets, ABFER
Looking Online to Understand Firms' Intangible Capital (2022) with Gaurav Kankanhalli
Presentations: NBER IT and Digitization (Lightning round)
Managerial Learning from Decoding Noisy Stock Prices (2022) with Po-Yu Liu and Tse-Chun Lin (invited for dual submission at RFS)
Presentations: ABFER, HKU, WFA, NBER 2023 - Big Data and Securities Markets 2023
Measuring Firm Uniqueness Through Digital Footprints (2022) with Wendi Huang and Vesa Pursiainen
Presentations: Greater China Area Finance Conference
Following the information footprint of firms Edward Lee, Alan P Kwan, Rudy Hanel, Anjali Bhatt, Frank Neffke (R&R)
"Government Support and the Production of Covid-Related Products Under Uncertainty" with Ben Charoenwong and Jing Li. (R&R)
Book Chapter
Charoenwong, B., and Alan Kwan (2021). "Alternative Data, Big Data, and Applications to Finance". In P. Moon Sub Choi, S. H. Huang (Ed.), Fintech with Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Blockchain. Springer.