Research Areas
Impact of Supply-Chain Relationships on Corporate and Investment Decisions
Information Production and Diffusion in Financial Markets
Roles of Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts in Financial Markets
Skill and Mobility in the Labor Market
Past and Current Teaching Assignments
Behavioral Finance (Undergraduate, MSc, and FMBA Class)
Mergers and Acquisitions (MBA Class)
Corporate Finance/Financial Management (Undergraduate Class)
--- CUHK Business School Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards (2020-2021, 2023-2024)
--- CUHK Business School Faculty Teaching Merit Awards (2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024)
Publications
Academic Articles
[10] Ling Cen, Yanru Han, and Jing Wu, 2025, "Equal Employment Opportunity in Supply Chains", Production and Operations Management (Special Issue on “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Operations and Supply Chain Management”), 34(3), 524-540.
[11] Ling Cen, Michael Hertzel, and Christoph Schiller, 2024, "Speed Matters: Limited Attention and Supply-Chain Information Diffusion", Management Science, Forthcoming.
[12] Ling Cen, Sudipto Dasgupta, Anthony Rice, and Fan Zhang, 2025, "Presidential Particularism (and the Trump Anomaly): Evidence from Federal Contract Awards and Capital Markets", Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Accepted.
Book Chapters
[1] Sudipto Dasgupta, and Ling Cen, "The Economics and Finance of Customer-Supplier Relationships", 2021, In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.631 [SSRN Link]
Working Papers
[1] Ling Cen, Lauren Cohen, Jing Wu, and Fan Zhang, "Who Benefits from Trade Wars?" (previously circulated under the title "The Golden Revolving Door'') [NBER Link]
--- covered by Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance [Link] and Cato Institute [Link]
[2] Ling Cen, Yanru Han, and Jarrad Harford, "What Do Questions Reveal? Skill Acquisition, Detection, and Recognition in the Capital Markets" [SSRN Link]
--- covered by China Business Knowledge [Link]
[3] Ling Cen, Bing Han, Yanru Han, and Chanik Jo, "Data Scientists on Wall Street" [SSRN Link]
[4] Ling Cen, Yanru Han, Jiaping Qiu, and Jing Wu, "Artificial Intelligence Along the Supply Chain" [SSRN Link]
--- covered by China Business Knowledge [Link]
[5] Ling Cen, Candie Chang, and Sudipto Dasgupta, "Peer Information Quality and Analysts' Forecast Efficiency" [SSRN Link]
[6] Ling Cen, Michael Hertzel, Jing Wu, and Zi'Ang Wang , "Human Capital Investment in Supply Chain Coordination: Evidence from Online Job Postings" [SSRN Link]
[7] Ling Cen, Yanru Han, Chang Liu, and Jing Wu, "Rise of Conscious Consumers: Impact of Corporate Workplace Equality on Household Spending" [SSRN Link]
--- covered by China Business Knowledge [Link]
[8] Ling Cen, Vanitha Ragunathan, Yan Xiong, and Liyan Yang, "The Dynamics of Information Production and Diffusion: Evidence from Buy-Side Participation in Earnings Conference Call" [SSRN Link]
[9] Ling Cen, Jing Chen, Chayyawat Ornthanalai, and Christoph Schiller, "Navigating Wall Street: Career Concerns and Analyst Transitions from Sell Side to Buy-Side" [Coming Soon]