Empirical Corporate Finance, Firm Financial Policy, Innovation, Labor Mobility, Industrial Organization
He, Z., & Hirshleifer, D. A. The Exploratory Mindset and Corporate Innovation,
Conditionally accepted at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Award at the Southern Finance Association, 2015
He, Z. (2018). Money Held for Moving Stars: Talent Competition and Corporate Cash Holdings, Journal of Corporate Finance, 51, 210-234.
Max E. Fessler Dissertation Award, University of Kansas, 2015
He, Z., & Wintoki, M. B. (2016). The Cost of Innovation: R&D and High Cash Holdings in U.S. Firms, Journal of Corporate Finance, 41, 280-303.
Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, Western Finance Association, 2014
John O. Tollefson Best Student Paper Award, University of Kansas, 2014
He, Z. (2015). Rivalry, Market Structure and Innovation: The Case of Mobile Banking, Review of Industrial Organization, 47(2), 219-242.
Outstanding Research Award by a Junior Author in the Review of Industrial Organization, 2016
Conference: Community Banking Research and Policy Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2014
Mobility Restrictions and Firm Performance: The Role of Knowledge Workers and Non-Competes, with Jide M. Wintoki
Conferences & Seminars: Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, 2018; University of Georgia, 2018; University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2018; Miami University 2020