Working Papers
1. Do Reg Crowdfunding Startups Offer Better Screening, Signaling, and Deal Structures to Overcome Moral Hazard Leading to Greater Success for Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Society? (with Bill Hu, Pankaj K. Jain, and Thomas H. McInish)
Resubmitted to the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Presented: 2022 FMA Annual Meeting*.
2. Interaction of Sustainable Finance Development with Regional Environmental Policies for Carbon Neutrality (with Jiating Du, Yixin Yuan, and Qiannong Gu)
Under review.
3. Polluted Air, Troubled Minds: The Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health in the United States (with Yuhang Pan, Hanchen Jiang, and Maoyong Fan)
Under review.
Conference acceptance: 2025 Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists*
4. Doing Good Deeds, Sowing Good Seeds: Evidence of Cause-Related Marketing’s Findings from the Bond Market (with Reza Houston, Rebecca VanMeter-Brown, Parker Woodroof, and David Maslar)
Revising.
5. Long-Term Effects of High School Financial Curriculum Mandates on Financial Well-Being (with Maoyong Fan and Minh Nguyen)
Revising.
6. Media Estimates (with Jason Bennett and Clinton Watkins)
Revising.
7. Machine Learning, Text Mining, and Payout Policies (with Jason Bennett and Clinton Watkins)
Revising.
Journal Publications
ESG and Crypto: Unveiling the Impact of Investor Information Acquisition on Cryptocurrency Returns (with Bill Hu, Rachel Washam, and Lily Zeng)
Accepted, at the Journal of Business and Economic Studies.
Presented: 2024 Mid-South Data Science Conference*
2. Institutional Pressure and Analyst Forecast Accuracy: Evidence from the Financial Sector (with Maoyong Fan and Manoj Athavale)
Financial Review, Volume 59, Issue 4, pp. 1061-1097, November 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12381
3. Stock Market Declines and the Psychological Health of Investors (with Maoyong Fan)
Financial Review, Volume 59, Issue 3, pp. 561-587, August 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12385
The paper was awarded the 2024 Editors’ Choice Best Paper Award by The Financial Review [link] and selected as the Lead Article by the editors.
A video summary of the article on the Financial Review's YouTube channel [link]
Presented: CDC and FMA Doctoral Consortium.
Media coverage: The Wall Street Journal [link], Irish Times [link], Pareto Asset Management, and Alpha Architect websites.
4. Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 38 of China's Largest Cities: Time Series Analysis (with Peng Yin, Guojun He, Maigeng Zhou etc.)
British Medical Journal, March 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j667
The British Medical Journal is one of the top 4 general medical journals in the world, along with The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Media coverage: more than 30 media outlets including Yahoo! Finance, The Straits Times, and The Japan Times.
5. 100 Horsemen and the Empty City: A Game Theoretic Examination of Deception in Chinese Military Legend (with Christopher Cotton)
Journal of Peace Research, Volume 48, Number 2, pp. 217-223, March 2011.
* Presented by coauthor.