Honglin Ren

Working Papers

Political Partisanship and Firm Value with Anqi Jiao, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, R&R

Environmentally-Inclined Politician and Local Environmental Performance: Evidence from Publicly Listed Firms in China with Hanming Fang, Danwen Song, and Nianhang Xu, Management Science, R&R

Winner of the Best Corporate Finance Paper Award at 2023 China Financial Research Conference

Heterogeneous Attention and Twin Stock Anomaly: A Natural Experiment from the Daily Price Limit Rule with Zhen Gai, Chongjun Wang, and Nianhang Xu, Journal of Banking & Finance, R&R

Does Environmental Lobbying Create Value? with Anqi Jiao and Chunbo Liu, Journal of Corporate Finance, R&R

Published Papers

Too Naïve to NAV? Performance Display and Capital Misallocation with Haibei Zhao, Financial Management, 2025, 54(3), 519-548.

Futures Turnover Waves with Ekaterina E. Emm, Gerald D. Gay and Han Ma, Journal of Futures Markets, Forthcoming

Partisanship, Optimism, and Firm Innovation with Anqi Jiao and Juntai Lu, Financial Management, 2024, 53(3), 543-577.

2024 FMA Semifinalist for Best Paper Awards in Corporate Finance

Blue versus red: partisan firm leaders and corporate culture with Anqi Jiao, Business & Politics, 2024, 26(4), 529-551.

Redemption in Kind and Mutual Fund Liquidity Management with Vikas Agarwal, Ke Shen and Haibei Zhao, Review of Financial Studies, 2023, 36(6), 2274-2318.

[Survey Article] Hedge funds: Performance, Risk Management, and Impact on Asset Markets with Vikas Agarwal, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2023. 

Political Uncertainty and Household Stock Market Participation with Vikas Agarwal, Hadiye Aslan and Lixin Huang, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022, 57(8), 2899-2928.

Winner of the Best Paper Award at 2019 Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines 

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Derivatives Markets: Evidence from Global Futures and Options Exchanges with Ekaterina E. Emm, Gerald D. Gay and Han Ma, Journal of Futures Markets, 2022, 42(5), 823-851.

Political Catastrophe and Firm Strategies: Evidence from the Capitol Riot with Anqi Jiao and Han Ma, Finance Research Letters, 2022.

The Rise and Breakup of the Commodity Exchange Membership: An Analysis of CBOT Seat Prices with Ekaterina E. Emm, Gerald D. Gay and Han Ma, Journal of Commodity Markets, 2021. 

Corporate Risk Exposures, Disclosure and Derivatives Use: A Longitudinal Study with Ekaterina E. Emm and Gerald D. Gay, Journal of Futures Markets, 2019, 39(7), 838-864.

Alpha or Beta in the Eye of the Beholder: What Drives Hedge Fund Flows with Vikas Agarwal and Clifton Green, Journal of Financial Economics, 2018, 127(3), 417-434.

Teaching

Renmin University of China, School of Business 

• Graduate level class: 

  • Corporate finance (International MBA), 2022 - present

  • Empirical asset pricing and investments, 2021 - 2024 

• Undergraduate core business class: Corporate Finance, 2022 - present

Georgia State University: 

• Undergraduate core business class: Corporate Finance, 2016 Fall - 2018 Fall

• Received GTA Teaching Excellence Award

Grants

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (￥300,000 ~= $43,000), 2023 - 2025