SELECTED WORKING PAPERS 

• Corporate Hiring under Uncertainty (with Vathunyoo Sila)

R&R, Review of Corporate Finance Studies 

• Regulating Zombie Properties (with Jonathan Lee and Huyen Nguyen)

  • Best Seminar Paper Award, University of Magdeburg

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

15. Proximity to Bank Headquarters and Branch Efficiency: Evidence from Mortgage Lending (with Ivan Lim, Linh Nguyen, and John Wilson)

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming 

14. Does Shareholder Litigation Risk Cause Public Firms to Delist? Evidence From Securities Class Action Lawsuits (with Jonathan Brogaard,  Nhan Le, & Vathunyoo Sila) 

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming 

13. Regulatory Spillovers in Local Mortgage Markets (with Ivan Lim & Linh Nguyen)

Review of Corporate Finance Studies, forthcoming

• Presented at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

• Semi-finalist, 2018 FMA Europe Best Paper Award

12. Lender Trust and Bank Loan Contracts (with Jens Hagendorff & Sonya Lim) 

Management Science, 2023, 69(3): 1758-1779

11. Climate Change Risk and the Cost of Mortgage Credit (with Steven Ongena, Shusen Qi & Vathunyoo Sila)  

       Review of Finance, 2022, 26(6): 1509-1549

• • • Policy impact: United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, quoted in letter to Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as evidence that banks do price climate-related risk. 

    • Coverage: Duke University FinReg Blog

10. The Walls Have Ears: Local Information Environments and Corporate Fraud (with Jens Hagendorff & Nhan Le)

       Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2022, 54(8): 2377-2410

9.   Does Marriage Equality Promote Credit Access? Evidence from Same-sex Marriage Laws (with Jens Hagendorff & Vathunyoo Sila)  

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2022, Volume 77, Article 102315

8.   Hometown Lending (with Ivan Lim)

       Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021, 56(8): 2894-2933

• • • Presented at Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

7.   Government Connections and Credit Access Around the World: Evidence from Discouraged Borrowers (with  Shusen Qi) 

       Journal of International Business Studies, 2021,  52(2): 321-333

• • • Coverage: Business Money

6.   Does Shareholder Litigation Affect the Corporate Information Environment?  (with Nhan Le & Vathunyoo Sila) 

       Journal of Financial Markets, 2021, Volume 56, Article 100600

• • • Finalist, 2019 FMA Asia/Pacific Best Paper Award

5.   Does Corporate Culture Affect Bank Risk-taking? Evidence from Loan-level data (with Linh Nguyen & Vathunyoo Sila)

       British Journal of Management, 2019, 30(1): 106-133

• • • Coverage: LSE Business Review 

4.   Does a CEO’s Cultural Heritage Affect Performance under Competitive Pressure? (with Jens Hagendorff & Arman Eshraghi) 

       Review of Financial Studies, 2018, 31(1): 97-141

• • • Coverage: Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Law School Forum, VoxEU, CEO Today 

    • Presented at Federal Reserve Bank of New York

3.   Can Bank Boards Prevent Misconduct? (with Jens Hagendorff & Arman Eshraghi)

       Review of Finance, 2016, 20(1): 1-36 (Lead article)

• • • Finalist, 2015 FMA European Best Paper Award

    • Coverage: VoxEU 

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

2.  Earnings Expectations and the Quality of Financial Services (with Xiaomeng Shi & Mingzhu Wang)

     Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2023, Volume 42, Issue 4, Article 107115

1.  Which Executive Characteristics Create Value in Banking? Evidence from Appointment Announcements (with  Jens Hagendorff & Arman Eshraghi)

      Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2015, 23(2): 112-28  

• • • Presented at Dutch Central Bank