Research Interests
Behavioral Finance, Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds, Climate Finance, Labor
Publications
Articles
Attention to Global Warming [abstract] (with Zhenyu Gao and Wenxi Jiang), 2020, Review of Financial Studies 33, 1112-1145.
Data: Monthly temperature, in Fahrenheit, of 78 cities worldwide with stock exchanges, 1983-2017 (For variable names and definitions, see Section 1 and Equation (1) of the article)
Featured in Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Academic Blog, CFA Control Room (in Chinese), Tsinghua Financial Review (in Chinese)
Media Coverage:
Yahoo Finance Australia, Yahoo Finance Singapore, South China Morning Post (1), (2), SME & Entrepreneurship Magazine, AsiaOne, The President Post
(in Chinese) Tencent, Baidu, Sina, Sohu, 163, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Wen Wei Po, EDigest (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), ET Net, Metro Finance (Radio)
Measuring the Carbon Exposure of Institutional Investors [abstract] (with Zhenyu Gao and Wenxi Jiang), 2020, Journal of Alternative Investments 23, 12-23.
Media Coverage:
Yahoo Finance Australia, Yahoo Finance Singapore, South China Morning Post (1), (2), SME & Entrepreneurship Magazine
(in Chinese) Tencent, Baidu, Sina, Sohu, 163, Wen Wei Po, EDigest (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) ET Net, TVB (Television)
Invited Editorial Comment: Climate Change Implications for the Asset Management Industry (with Zhenyu Gao and Wenxi Jiang), Journal of Alternative Investments 23, 8-11.
Disposition Sales and Stock Market Liquidity [abstract], 2019, Journal of Financial Markets 45, 19-36.
Learning about Mutual Fund Managers [abstract] (with Bige Kahraman and Abhiroop Mukherjee), 2016, Journal of Finance 71, 2809-2860.
Media Coverage: South China Morning Post
The Role of Surprise: Understanding Overreaction and Underreaction to Unanticipated Events using In-Play Soccer Betting Market [abstract] (with Sam K. Hui), 2014, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 107, 614-629.
Securities & Futures Institute Best Paper Award, Asian Finance Association Conference, 2012
Featured in CFA Control Room (in Chinese)
Media Coverage: CBS News, Hong Kong Economic Journal (in Chinese), Metro Finance (Radio, in Cantonese)
Convertible Bond Arbitrageurs as Suppliers of Capital [abstract] (with Mila Getmansky, Brian Henderson, and Heather Tookes), 2010, Review of Financial Studies 23, 2492-2522.
Convertible Bond Arbitrage, Liquidity Externalities, and Stock Prices [abstract] (with Mila Getmansky and Heather Tookes), 2009, Journal of Financial Economics 91, 227-251.
Book Chapters
The Impact of the 2008 Short-Sale Ban on Liquidity and Efficiency [abstract], 2011, In: Progress in Economics Research, Volume 18, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 213-220.
Working Papers
Superstar Firms and College Major Choice [abstract] (with Dong Lou and Abhiroop Mukherjee)
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
Featured in State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Research Data Blog
Carbon Firm Devaluation and Green Actions [abstract] (with Zhenyu Gao, Wenxi Jiang, and Hulai Zhang)
CICF Best Paper Award, China International Conference in Finance, 2021
Featured in Investment Week
Media Coverage:
Yahoo Finance Australia, Yahoo Finance Singapore, South China Morning Post (1), (2), SME & Entrepreneurship Magazine, RTHK Radio 3 (Radio)
(in Chinese) Tencent, Baidu, Sina, Sina Finance, Sohu, 163, Business Weekly, OwlNews, Wen Wei Po, EDigest (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), ET Net, TVB (Television), Now Finance (Television)
Scared Away: Credit Demand Response to Expected Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market [abstract] (with Zhenyu Gao, Singsen Lam, Tian Li, and Wenlan Qian)
Alpha Go Everywhere: Machine Learning and International Stock Returns [abstract] (with Wenxi Jiang and Chao Zhang)
Featured in Portfolio for the Future
Inventor Turnover and Firm Value [abstract] (with Sudipto Dasgupta and Feifei Lai)
The Efficacy of Discretionary Short Sale Rules: The Case of Hong Kong [abstract] (with Zsuzsa R. Huszar)
A Test of the Self-Serving Attribution Bias: Evidence from Mutual Funds [abstract] (with Dong Lou)
Other Publications
Quadratic Assignment Problems (QAP) and Its Size Reduction Method [abstract], 2003, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal 4.