Research
PUBLICATIONS
'Cash Holdings and Corporate Investment: Evidence from COVID-19' (with Bernard Tawiah) forthcoming at the Review of Corporate Finance
`The financing of uncertain future investments' (with Mona Yaghoubi), Studies in Economics and Finance (ABDC B)
`Financing a Corporate Venture Capital Program' (with Bernard Tawiah), Journal of Banking & Finance, 135(2022) (ABDC A*)
‘Board of director compensation in China: It pays to be connected' (with Zonghao Chen and Jameson Watts), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 63 (2020) (ABDC A)
'Data breaches and corporate liquidity management' (with Kwabena Boasiko), European Financial Management, 27(2021), pp. 387-55 (ABDC A)
‘Rookie directors and firm performance: Evidence from China’ (with Zonghoa Chen), Journal of Corporate Finance, 60(2020) (ABDC A*)
‘A theory of political connections and financial outcomes’, International Review of Economics & Finance, 61(2019) pp 108-127. (ABDC A)
‘Board of director compensation: To pay or not to pay? How much to pay?’ (with Zonghao Chen), Emerging Markets Review, 37(2018), pp. 66-82. (ABDC A)
‘The influence of cash flow volatility on capital structure and zero leverage by maturity’ (with Mona Yaghoubi), Journal of Corporate Finance, 38(2016), pp 18-36. (ABDC A*)
‘Seasonal affective disorder and IPO underpricing: Updated evidence’ (with Mohammed Khaled and Stephen Keef), Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 8 2(2015), pp.78-99. (ABDC not rated, Scimago Q1)
‘Robust determinants of IPO underpricing and their implications for IPO research’ (with Alexander Butler and Robert Kieschnick), Journal of Corporate Finance, 27 (2014), pp. 367-383. (ABDC A*)
‘The influence of moral hazard on investment in financially constrained and unconstrained firms’ (with Robert Kieschnick), Finance Research Letters, 11, 3(2014), pp. 272-281. (ABDC A)
‘Does the effect of revealed private information on Initial Public Offering (IPO) first trading day returns differ by IPO market heat?’, Accounting & Finance, 54, 3(2014), pp. 921-964. (ABDC A)
‘Seasonal affective disorder: the seasons versus the length of the night’ (with Mohammed Khaled and Stephen Keef), The Empirical Economic Letters, 12, 12 (2013), pp. 1355-1369. (ABDC C)
‘Is the relationship between investment and conditional cash flow volatility ambiguous, asymmetric, or both?’ (with James Tate), Accounting & Finance, 53, 4(2013), pp. 913-947. (ABDC A)
‘Does corporate ownership affect capital structure?--Evidence from Chinese listed firms’ (with Zhengwei Wang and Wei Lin), Corporate Ownership and Control, 6, 4 (Summer 2009, Special Issue), 532-542. (ABDC B)
WORKING PAPERS
‘The influence of cash flow volatility on firm use of debt of different maturities or zero-debt: International evidence’ (with Huyen Thi Thu Nguyen)
Under review (2nd round) at the International Review of Economics and Finance (ABDC A)
Venture Capital and Private Equity-backed firms at the beginning: Effect on firm financial policies' (with Huyen Thi Thu Nguyen)
Under review
'Data breaches and firm credit risk' (with Kwabena Boasiako)
'Should an entrepreneur go IPO or sell? – The influence network effects' (with Jack Robles)
'Venture capital investment and stock market development' (with Huyen Thi Thu Nguyen)
'News feeds are no longer free: Policy implications from Australia' (with Nguyen Cong To Loan)