I am a Senior Lecturer (Asst. Professor) of Finance at the University of Technology Sydney. I am also an affiliated researcher with the Digital Finance CRC . I earned my PhD from Nanyang Technological University.
My last name "Phua" (silent "h") is the Singaporean variant of the Chinese surname 潘, which is more commonly spelt as "Pan". Interested in household finance research, esp. consumer scams/fraud.
Grand theft identity: The privacy costs of digitalization. (w/ Chishen Wei and Gloria Yang Yu)
Working paper (SSRN); Invited submission to Management Science.
Monash Winter Finance Conference, ANU-FIRN Banking and Financial Stability Meeting (Best Paper Award).
The economics of financial scams: Evidence from initial coin offerings. (w/ Bo Sang, Chishen Wei, Gloria Yang Yu)
Working paper (SSRN); Reject & Resubmit at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
AFA, ABFER, Asian FA, Boca Corporate Finance and Governance, FMCG, MFA, UK Women in Finance Workshop, UWA Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, VSBF, Global AI FRC, ANU, HKPolyU, Massey, Monash, NTU, QUT, SMU, UAdelaide, UMelbourne, UQ, USydney, UTS.
Peer effects in equity research. (w/ Mandy Tham and Chishen Wei)
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 58, 647-676.
Are overconfident CEOs better leaders? Evidence from stakeholder commitments. (w/ Mandy Tham and Chishen Wei)
Journal of Financial Economics 128, 519–545.
Investor search and asset prices. (w/ Hardy Hulley and Leo Liu)
Quarterly Journal of Finance, forthcoming.
Data-driven monetary policy: Evidence from the Bank of Japan's Equity Purchase Program. (w/ Zechu Liu, Christina Nikitopoulos, and Jianxin Wang)
Pacific Basin Finance Journal 90, 1-18.
FIRN Annual Conference 2024
Competing owners.
Sydney Digital Finance and Market Microstructure Meeting 2023
Crypto carry.
FIRN Annual Conference 2023
Firm attention to retail investors.
Machine learning in corporate bonds: Evidence from China.
Asian FA Conference 2022
Technology and cryptocurrency valuation.
Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference 2022
Say on pay laws and insider trading.
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2021
Data sharing and return comovement.
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2020
If you want to maximize profits, manage for the long term.
Referee: Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, The Financial Review, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.
Crowdsourced research: Reproducibility in Management Science (as member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration).
UTS: Chair of Recruitment Committee (Finance Department).
Languages: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (native).
Nationality: Singaporean citizen, Australian PR.
Military service: Lieutenant, Singapore Armed Forces Commandos.
UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
Building 8, 14–28 Ultimo Road
Ultimo, NSW 2007, Sydney, Australia