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 research about consumer scams/fraud. Ex-Singapore Armed Forces Commandos.
Grand theft identity: The privacy costs of digitalization. (w/ Chishen Wei and Gloria Yang Yu)
Working paper (SSRN)
The economics of financial scams: Evidence from initial coin offerings. (w/ Bo Sang, Chishen Wei, Gloria Yang Yu)
Working paper (SSRN)
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. (Gabriele Lattanzio)
Sydney Digital Finance and Market Microstructure Meeting 2023
Crypto carry. (Maik Schmeling, Andreas Schrimpf and Karamfil Todorov)
FIRN Annual Conference 2023
Firm attention to retail investors. (Alexandre Jeanneret, Tianyi Lu, Wenjin Tang)
Machine learning in corporate bonds: Evidence from China. (Yiwen Fang, Xiaohu Lu, Angel Zhong, Youdan Cao)
Asian FA Conference 2022
Technology and cryptocurrency valuation. (Yukun Liu, Jinfei Sheng, Wanyi Wang)
Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference 2022
Say on pay laws and insider trading. (Thomas Bourveau, Francois Brochet, Fabrizio Ferri, Chengzhu Sun)
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2021
Data sharing and return comovement. (Si Cheng, Yupeng Lin, Ruichang Lu, Xiaojun Zhang)
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2020
If you want to maximize profits, manage for the long term. (Yrj Koskinen, Ari Pandes, Shuai Kevin Yang)
Referee: RFS, MS, RoF, JCF, PBFJ, TFR, JBEF
Crowdsourced research: Reproducibility in Management Science (as member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration)
UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
Building 8, 14–28 Ultimo Road
Ultimo, NSW 2007, Sydney, Australia
kenny.phua@uts.edu.au