Research

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Published Papers:

Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives and Evaluation  (with Daniel Hamermesh, Christopher Parsons, and Michael Yates) 

    American Economic Review, 101(4): 1410–35, 2011 

When Do High Stock Returns Trigger Equity Issues?  (with Aydoğan Altı) 

    Journal of Financial Economics, 103(1): 61-87, 2012 

Local Religious Beliefs and Mutual Fund Risk-Taking Behaviors (with Tao Shu and Eric Yeung) 

    Management Science, 58(10): 1779-1796, 2012 (lead article) 

Do Local Investors Know More? Evidence from Mutual Fund Location and Investments 

    Quarterly Journal of Finance, 4(2): 1450010, 2014

Home Away From Home: Geography of Information and Local Investors (with Gennaro Bernille and Alok Kumar) 

    Review of Financial Studies, 28(7): 2009-2049, 2015

Institutional Trading during a Wave of Corporate Scandals: 'Perfect Payday'?  (with Gennaro Bernille and Qin Wang)

    Journal of Corporate Finance [Special Issue on Financial Market Misconduct and Agency Conflicts], 34: 191-209, 2015

The Geography of Financial Misconduct (with Christopher Parsons and Sheridan Titman) 

    Journal of Finance, 73: 2087-2137, 2018

Has Local Information Advantage Disappeared? (with Gennaro Bernille, Alok Kumar, and Qin Wang) 

    Review of Financial Economics [Special Issue on Behavioral Finance], 37(1):38-60, 2019

Sell-Side Analysts and Stock Mispricing: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flow-Driven Trading Pressure (with Kelsey D. Wei) 

    Management Science, 65(11): 5427-5448, 2019

Institutional Investors and Corporate Social Responsibility (with John R. Nofsinger and Abhishek Varma)

    Journal of Corporate Finance, 58: 700-725, 2019

Do Conglomerates Operate More Efficiently than Single-Segment Firms? (with Neil Bhattacharya and Jeff Jiewei Yu)

     Singapore Economic Review, 65(5): 1237-1270, 2020

Does Local Capital Supply Matter for Public Firms’ Capital Structures? (with Binay Adhikari  and David Cicero)

    Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 56(5): 1809-1843, 2021

The Effect of Social Media on the Ethnic Dynamics in Donations to Disaster Relief Efforts (with Deserina Sulaeman)

    Sustainability, 14(19), 12305, 2022;  https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912305 

Expanding Footprints: The Impact of Passenger Transportation on Corporate Locations (with Yatang Lin, Yu Qin, Jubo Yan, Jialiang Zhang)

    Review of Finance, 27(3): 1119-1153, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfac049 

Life is Too Short? Bereaved Managers and Investment Decisions (with Clark Liu, Tao Shu, and Eric Yeung)

    Review of Finance, 27(4): 1373–1421, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfac067 

Startups' Demand for Accounting Expertise: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (with Ofir Gefen and David Reeb)

    Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-023-09775-8 

Swimming Upstream: Struggling Firms in Corrupt Cities (with Christopher Parsons and Sheridan Titman) 

    Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Accepted

Explainable Natural Language Processing for Corporate Sustainability Analysis (with Keane Ong, Rui Mao, Ranjan Satapathy, Ricardo Shirota Filho, Erik Cambria, and Gianmarco Mengaldo)

    Information Fusion, Accepted


Book Chapter:

Options Backdating and Shareholders (with Gennaro Bernille), in Corruption and Fraud in Financial Markets: Malpractice, Misconduct and Manipulation (John Wiley & Sons, 2020)


Selected Working Papers:

Corporate ESG Scores Do Not Reflect Their Deforestation Exposures (with Yingtong Zhu and Luis R. Carrasco)

Do fund managers’ commitments to responsible investing affect private information acquisition, information environment, and corporate sustainability? (with Sumit Agarwal, Yue Zhang, and Zhe Zong)

Agglomeration Effects in Initial Public Offerings (with Shahram Amini, Andrew MacKinlay, and Chishen Wei)

Who Do You Vote for? Same-Race Preferences in Shareholder Voting (with Qiaozhi (George) Ye)

Choosing Startup Investors: Does Gender Matter? (with Ofir Gefen and David Reeb)

Cross-Border Trade Competition and International Stock Return Comovement (with Sungjune Pyun) 

The “Green” Geography: Corporate Environmental Policies and Local Institutional Investors (with Abhishek Varma)

Institutional Presence  (with Chishen Wei and Kelvin Tan) 

Information Environment and the Geography of Firms and Investors (with Gennaro Bernille and Shimon Kogan) 

Do Shareholder Preferences Affect Corporate Policies? 

Google Scholar Citation: 2,086 (h-index: 12, as of Oct 2024); Scopus Citation: 806 (h-index: 9, as of Oct 2024);  Web of Science Citation: 758 (h-index: 9, as of Oct 2024)