Working papers
(Updated in Sep. 2026)
(Updated in Sep. 2026)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Role of information intermediaries on capital markets, Chinese and foreign capital markets, Fintech, Sustainable finance
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WORKING PAPERS
“Digital Footprints as Collateral for Debt Collection” (with Lili Dai, Jianlei Han, and Jing Shi)
• Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, 2021
• Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference, 2021
• Annual Short-Term Funding Markets Conference, 2021
• Future of Financial Information Conference, 2021
• Conference on Financial Innovation, 2021
• China International Conference in Finance, Shanghai, 2021
• China Financial Research Conference, 2021
• NBER Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting, 2020
• Summer Research Workshop of China Journal of Accounting Research, 2020
• Academic Forum of Young and Middle-aged Committee of Guangdong Economic Society, 2020
“Fintech and Gender Discrimination” (with Yongqiang Chu, Chunxing Sun, and Daxuan Zhao)
• Tri-University Annual Conference: towards a Post-pandemic Sustainable World, 2021
• SME Research Conference of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, 2021
• Zhejiang University Digital Finance International Conference, Hangzhou, China, 2021
“Long Live Hermes! Mercury Retrograde and Equity Prices” (with Yanling Qi and Hang Wang)
• Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, 2021
• Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference, 2021
• International Conference of the French Finance Association, 2021
• Behavioral Finance Working Group, 2021
• FMA European Conference, 2021
• Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2021
• Shanghai Financial Forefront Symposium, 2021
• Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets Conference, 2020
• Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Management, 2020
• International Conference on Derivatives and Capital Markets, 2020
• FIRN PhD Symposium, 2020
“The Price of Integrity” (with Chen Chen and Ying Xia)
• American Accounting Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 2019
• Queensland Corporate Finance Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 2019
• China International Conference in Finance, Tianjin, China, 2018
• Auckland Finance Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand, 2017
“The Long-term Use of Short-term Debt around the World” (with Lifang Chen, Yong Li, and Yizhong Wang)
• Asian Finance Association Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2018
• China Finance and Accounting Research Symposium, 2018
• China Financial Market Conference, 2018
“Political Uncertainty and Commodity Prices” (with Kewei Hou, Ke Tang, and Yubo Tao)
• Annual Meeting of American Finance Association, San Diego, 2020
• TFA Asset Pricing Conference, Taipei, 2019
• Commodity and Energy Markets Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 2019
• China International Conference in Finance, Guangzhou, 2019
• Midwest Finance Association Conference, Chicago, 2019
• Australasian Commodity Markets Conference, Sydney, 2019
• International Conference on Futures and Other Derivatives, Shanghai, 2018
• University of Oklahoma Energy and Commodities Finance Research Conference, Norman, 2017
“Learning about Uncertainty from Options Trading” (with Da-Hea Kim and Sie Ting Lau)
“The Momentum of News” (with Ying Wang and Xiaoneng Zhu)
• China International Conference in Finance, Tianjin, 2018
• Annual Meeting of American Finance Association, Chicago, 2017
• Chinese Finance Annual Meeting, Dalian, China, 2016, Winner of the Best Paper Award
• Conference on Corporate Finance and Capital Markets, Shanghai, China, 2016
“Do Patents Portend Productivity Growth? Global Evidence from Private and Public Firms” (with Xin Chang, David McLean, and Wenrui Zhang)
“Political Connections and Peers” (with Jared R. Stanfield and Le Zhang)
• Annual Meeting of Financial Management Association, Boston, 2017
“Liquidity, Information Production, and Debt-equity Choice” (with William Cheung, Hyun Joong Im, and Thomas H. Noe)
• Annual Meeting of Financial Management Association, Chicago, 2013
• Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2013
• Oxford-Cambridge-Warwick Doctoral Conference, London, UK, 2011
“Characterizing Global Financial and Economic Integration Using Cash Flow Expectations” (with Lilian Ng, Bruno Solnik, and Eliza Wu)
• Korean American Finance Association Meetings, Chicago, 2013
• Financial Intermediation Research Society conference, Minneapolis, 2012
• China International Conference in Finance, Chongqing, China, 2012
• Annual Meeting of Financial Management Association, Denver, 2011 (Top ten session, nominated for the best paper awards)
• European Finance Association Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011
• European Financial Management Association Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 2010
• Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2009