Working Papers

1. Algorithmic Trading Architecture and Price Informativeness, with Snehal Banerjee

2. Trading against Algorithms: Price Dynamics and Risk-sharing in a Market with Q-learners, with Snehal Banerjee 

3. Deprioritizing Content

4. Friends Don't Lie: Monitoring and Communication with Risky Investments, with Snehal Banerjee

5. Leaks and Takeovers

Publications

1. Dynamic Information Design in an Entry Game, with Xuelin Li and Fangyuan Yu, Journal of Economic Theory (2025) [WP Version]

2. Fomenting Conflict, Journal of Economic Theory (2024)

3. Aggressive Pivots and Entrepreneurial Skill, with Xuelin Li, AEJ: Microeconomics (2024)

4. Harnessing the Overconfidence of the Crowd: A Theory of SPACs, with Snehal Banerjee, Journal of Financial Economics (2024) [Harvard Law School Forum Summary]

5. Monitor Reputation and Transparency, with Ivan Marinovic, AEJ: Microeconomics (2023)

6. Ambiguity in Dynamic Contracts, with Ji Hee Yoon, Journal of Economic Theory (2022)

7. Monitoring with Career Concerns, with Ivan Marinovic, RAND Journal of Economics (2022) [Online Appendix]

8. Optimal Financing and Disclosure, Management Science (2020)

9. The Market for Conflicted Advice, with Briana Chang, Journal of Finance (2020)

10. Moving the Goalposts, with Jeffrey Ely, Journal of Political Economy (2020)

11. Incentives, Project Choice and Dynamic Multitasking, Theoretical Economics (2019)

12. On the Smoothness of Value Functions and the Existence of Optimal Strategies, with Bruno Strulovici, Journal of Economic Theory (2015)

Teaching

FINA 7900A: Theoretical Corporate Finance (PhD), HKUST, 2025 - present

ECON 3133: Microeconomic Theory II (undergrad), HKUST, 2024 - present

FINA 4221: Principles of Corporate Finance (undergrad), University of Minnesota, 2013-2023

FINA 8812: Corporate Finance I (PhD), University of Minnesota, 2013-2023