SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
1. Something in the Air: Does Air Pollution Affect Fund Managers' Carbon Divestment? with Thanh Huynh and Ying Xia
2022 FIRN Annual Conference Best Paper Prize
Review of Accounting Studies, 2025, Volume 30, 2607–2634.
2. How Firms Adapt to Rising Temperatures: Evidence from U.S. Establishments, with Zuben Jin, Yupeng Lin and Zilong Zhang
Journal of Business Ethics, forthcoming
3. The Gender Effects of COVID: Evidence from Equity Analysts, with Baolian Wang
Review of Accounting Studies, 2025, Volume 30, pages 1683–1715.
4. Is Carbon Risk Priced in the Cross-Section of Corporate Bond Returns? with Tinghua Duan and Quan Wen
2021 GRASFI Best Asset Pricing Paper Prize
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2025, 60(1): 1-35.
5. Exchange-Traded Funds and Real Investment, with Constantinos Antoniou, Xuewen Liu, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, and Chengzhu Sun
Review of Financial Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, 1043–1093, 2023.
6. Short Selling ETFs , with Qifei Zhu
Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Volume 12, Issue 4, 960-998, 2022.
2016 Australasian Finance and Banking Conference P.h.D Forum (First Prize)
7. Inside Brokers, with Abhiroop Mukherjee and Rik Sen
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 141, 1096-1118, 2021
8. Security Analysts and Capital Market Anomalies, with Li Guo and K.C. John Wei
The Research Paper Award at 26th Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 137, 204-230, 2020
9. The Information Content of Sudden Insider Silence, with Claire Yurong Hong
2016 FMA Asia Best Paper Award in Asset Pricing/Investment
2017 Asian Finance Association Best Paper Award
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol.54(4), 1499-1538, 2019
10. Climate Risks and Market Efficiency, with Harrison Hong and Jiangmin Xu
Journal of Econometrics, Vol.208(1), 265-281, 2019
Online Appendix; Data and Program
11. Macro Disagreement and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
2015 Chicago Quantitative Alliance (Asia) Academic Competition (Second Prize)
Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Vol.6(1), 1-45, 2016. (Editor's Choice Article)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
1. Major Customers and Carbon Footprints along the Supply Chain, with Saiying Deng, Tinghua Duan and Xiaoling Pu
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2025, Vol.92, 102752.
2. Climate Change Concerns and Mortgage Lending, with Tinghua Duan
Journal of Empirical Finance, 2024, Vol.75, 101445.
3. Geographic Links and Predictable Returns, with Zuben Jin
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2024, Vol.51, 2239-2274.
2020 Crowell Memorial Award for Best Paper in Quantitative Investments (Second Prize)
4. Information Acquisition and Expected Returns: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic, with Chengzhu Sun
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2022, Vol.141, 104384.
5. Acquiring Organizational Capital, with Peixin Li, Baolian Wang and Zilong Zhang
Finance Research Letters, June 2018, vol.25, 30-35.
WORKING PAPERS:
1. Do Carbon Pricing Policies Harm Firm Performance? Worldwide Evidence, with Tinghua Duan and Hong Zhang
Presented at: HKIMR; University of Manchester; Lancaster University; SAIF; Zhejiang University; ABFER 2024; CICF 2024; SUFE; Paris December Finance Meeting 2024; MFA 2025; GRASFI 2025; FMA Asia 2025 (scheduled);
2. Financial Intermediaries and Comovement in Market Efficiency: The Case of ETFs, with Claire Yurong Hong, Jiang Luo, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Presented at: ABFER 2022; Stockholm Business School; IESEG School of Management; NUS; SMU Summer Camp; SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2022; NFA 2023;
3. Naïve Earnings Growth Extrapolation, with Chenyu Cui and Xinyi Zhang
Presented at: CICF 2021; China Investment Corporation; ABRI Seminar; NTU; Bank of America; RBFC 2022;
R&R at Review of Accounting Studies
4. Consumers' Reaction to Corporate ESG Performance: Evidence from Store Visits, with Tinghua Duan and Roni Michaely
Presented at: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; NTHU Symposium on Sustainable Finance; Lingnan University; 2023 French Finance Conference; 2023 FMA European; 2024 Finance Down Under Conference; 2024 European Winter Finance Conference; Five-star conference;
2023 FMA European Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance & Financial Institutions
5. The Value of Abstract Reasoning: Evidence from Financial Analysts, with Zuben Jin, Rong Wang, and Gloria Yu
Presented at: FMA Asia-Pacific 2022; SMU Summer Camp;
6. Scope Similarity and Cross-Firm Return Predictability, with Zuben Jin
7. A Behavioral Signalling Explanation for Stock Splits, with Chenyu Cui, Jiaren Pang, and Deren Xie
R&R at Financial Management
8. ETF Momentum, with Melvyn Teo and Chloe (Chunliu) Yang
9. Do Foreign Institutional Investors Deter Opportunistic Insider Trading? with Claire Yurong Hong and Qifei Zhu
Presented at: 2018 Singapore Scholars Symposium; Volatility Institute Conference at NYU Shanghai; Five Star Finance Forum; SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2018; CICF 2019; NFA 2019; 2019 Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting Conference;
10. Days to Cover and Stock Returns, with Harrison Hong, Sophie X. Ni, Jose A. Scheinkman and Philip Yan
Presented at: 2016 AFBC PhD Forum; EFA 2015; CICF 2016; AFA 2016
Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal; Alpha Architect; AllAboutAlpha
2016 CICF Best Paper Award
11. The Local Downside Risk Premium, with Zilong Niu
Presented at: 2024 AsianFA conference; 2024 European Winter Meeting; AFBC 2025 (scheduled);
Asian Quantitative and Macro Investment Conference (scheduled);
12. Active Responses to Passive Ownership: Evidence from Corporate Disclosure, with Jiayu Dai, Kevin Tseng, and Bochen Wu
Presented at: FIRN asset management meeting;
13. The Gender Effects of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Labor Performance: Evidence from Equity Analysts, with Shunlan Fang and Xiaoling Pu
Presented at: HKU Governance & Sustainability Conference; FMA Asia 2025 (scheduled);
14. Predicting the Unpredictable: Representative Bias and Speculative Trading in Stock Market, with Chenyu Cui, Baolian Wang, and Xinyi Zhang
Presented at: China Financial Research Conference; AFR International Conference of Economics and Finance; CUHK-Shenzhen Forum of Asian Accounting Scholars; Nanjing University of Science and Technology;
15. Salient Signals of Economic Transitions in Analyst Forecasting: Evidence from the Electric Vehicle Era, with Xueqing Geng, Jarrad Harford, and Yonghao Archaelake Zhai
Presented at: SMU Summer Camp; FMA (scheduled);