Selected Working Papers
1) Do Carbon Pricing Policies Harm Firm Performance? Worldwide Evidence (with Frank Weikai Li and Hong Zhang)
Conferences: ABFER 2024, CICF 2024, EUROFIDAI-ESSEC Paris December Finance Meeting 2024, MFA 2025, GRASFI 2025
Seminars: Emlyon Business School; HKIMR; University of Manchester; Lancaster University; SAIF; Zhejiang University, CUFE
2) Consumers' Reaction to Corporate ESG Performance: Evidence from Store Visits (with Frank Weikai Li and Roni Michaely)
Conferences: European Winter Finance Conference (EWFC) 2024, Finance Down Under Conference 2024, NTHU Symposium on Sustainable Finance, FMA European Conference 2023, FMA Annual Conference 2023
Seminars: Singapore Management University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Lingnan University, University of Manitoba
2023 FMA European Conference Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance & Financial Institutions
Selected Publications (FT 50)
1) Is Carbon Risk Priced in the Cross-Section of Corporate Bond Returns? (with Frank Weikai Li & Quan Wen)
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2025, 60(1): 1-35.
AFA (2023), SFS NA (2021), ABFER (2021)
2) The Effects of a U.S. Approach to Enforcement: Evidence from China (with Kai Li, Rafael Rogo & Ray Zhang)
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2024, 59(1): 121-156.
SFS AP (2019), ABFER (2019)
3) Do Board Secretaries Influence Management Earnings Forecasts? (with Lu Xing & Wenxuan Hou).
Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, 54(2): 537-574.
Other Publications
4) Major Customers and Carbon Footprints along the Supply Chain (with Saiying Deng, Frank Weikai Li & Xiaoling Pu )
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2025, 92: 102752
5) Board Gender Diversity Reform and Corporate Carbon Emissions (with Raul Barroso, Siyue (Sarina) Guo & Oskar Kowalewski)
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2024, 87: 102616.
6) Climate Change Concerns and Mortgage Lending (with Frank Weikai Li)
Journal of Empirical Finance, 2024, 75: 101445.
SFS AP (2019), FIRS (2020), ABFER (2021)
7) Lawyers in the Boardroom and Firms’ Environmental Performance (with Xianda Liu, Jiafu An, Wenxuan Hou & Ruoran Zhao)
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 2023, 89: 101874.
8) Do women drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from gender diversity reforms around the world (with Rong Ding, Wenxuan Hou,
Xianda Liu & Ziwei Xu)
International Review of Law and Economics, 2022, 72: 106097.
9) Cyber-attack Risks and Initial Coin Offerings: Evidence from the World (with Jiafu An, Wenxuan Hou & Xianda Liu)
Finance Research Letters, 2021, 41: 101858.
10) The International Experience of CEOs and IPO Location Choices (with Wenxuan Hou & William Rees)
Economic Modelling, 2020, 87:461-470.
11) The Legacy of Wars around the World: Evidence from Military Director (with Jiafu An, Wenxuan Hou & Xianda Liu)
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 2020, 64: 101172.
12) Initial Coin Offerings and Entrepreneurial Finance: The Role of Founders’ Characteristics Authors (with Jiafu An, Wenxuan Hou & Xinyu Xu)
Journal of Alternative Investment, 2019, 21(4): 26-40.
13) Athletes in Boardrooms: Evidence from the World (with Yizhe Dong, Wenxuan Hou & Lucy Liu)
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 2018, 59: 165-183.
14) CEO Publicity and Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from S&P 500 Firms (with Rong Ding, Wenxuan Hou & John Zhang)
Journal of Business Research, 2018, 87: 90-101.