UQAM Finance Brown Bag Seminars: 2024-2025 schedules

UQAM Finance Workshops: 2024 Pre-NFA program

Education

• Ph.D. in Finance, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Academic Experience

School of Management, University of Quebec at Montreal (ESG UQAM)

Associate Professor of Finance, June 2023 - present

Assistant Professor of Finance, June 2019 - May 2023

Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

      Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, July 2016 - June 2019

Research Interests

• FinTech, Blockchain/Cryptocurrency/DeFi, Climate Change/Sustainability,  Asset Pricing,  Risk Management, and ETFs 

Publications

1. Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms' Speculative 8-K Disclosures, 2019 (Management Science, Vol. 65, No. 12, December 2019, pp. 5901-5913), with Stephanie Cheng, Gus De Franco, and Pengkai Lin

       Media mention: Bloomberg Opinion, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog

Working Papers

2. Extrapolative Expectations and Corporate Risk Management, with Nishad Kapadia, Yuhang Xing, and Yifan Zhang

• Best Paper Award, JPMCC International Symposium (CU Denver) 2022

• Presented at: J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) International Symposium (CU Denver) 2022, FMA 2022, HEC Montreal

3. Social Media and Bitcoin Price Dynamics, with Pan Liu, Alexandre F. Roch, and Xiaozhou Zhou 

• Presented at: FMA 2022, FMA European 2023, AFFI 2023, Global Finance Conference 2023, Cardiff Fintech (Cardiff Business School) 2023, Shanghai-Edinburg-UCL Fintech 2023, PBFJ: AI and Marchine Learing in Corporate Finance (Xiamen University) 2023

• Funded by Quebec's FinTech Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020-2021

4. Machine Learning and High Frequency Bitcoin Trading, with Xiaozhou Zhou 

• Funded by Quebec's FinTech Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020-2021

5. FinTech under COVID-19: A Step Forward or Survival of the Fittest? with Maya Cara and Lora Dimitrova 

• Funded by FinTech and COVID-19 Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020

6. Oil and Equity Return Predictability: The Importance of Dissecting Oil Price Changes, with Georgios Skoulakis and Jinming Xue

• Presented at: J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) International Symposium (CU Denver) 2019, Paris December Finance Meeting (eurofidai) 2018, NFA 2018, FMA 2018, CICF 2017, MFA 2017, AQR, Eastern Connecticut State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Auckland, University Laval, UQAM, Pacific Northwest Finance Conference 2017,  2016 Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics 

• Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2016-2018

7. Oil Price, Bond Return, and Breakeven Inflation 

• Presented at: Conference on Climate and Energy Conference (Leibniz University Hannover) 2023, International Symposium on Environment and Energy Finance Issues (ISEFI) 2022, CICF 2019, European Finance Association (EFA) 2018, FMA 2018, MFA 2018, NFA PhD Session 2015, Steven Institute of Technology

• Funded by Canadian Securities Institute (CSI) Research Foundation  

Work in Progress

8. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Blockchain – A New Fintech Revolution? Evidence from the Crypto Disruptors and Disruptees 

9. ETFs and Institutional Investors' Risk Shifting and Attention Reallocation, with Jingyu Zhang

• Funded by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2024

10. Risks and Returns of the Non-fungible Token (NFT) Markets, with Alexandre F. Roch

• Funded by the NFTs Tokens and Gamification of Investment Decision Grant, 2022-2023

11. Assessing and Pricing Firm-level Exposure to Climate Change Risk, with Gus De Franco, Nishad Kapadia, and Pengkai Lin

12. Academic Network and Productivity, with Ted Fee and Hugh Hartzog  

    (Related website: www.financerankings.com Citation-Based Finance Research Rankings & Highly Cited Articles )

Teaching Experience

UQAM, 2019-present

FIN8524: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Applications in Finance (a brand-new Graduate FinTech course) (Winter 2022, Winter 2023)

           FIN5580: International Finance (Winter 2020, Winter 2021)

FIN5523: Bond Market and Interest Rates (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023)   

FIN5521: Security Analysis (Fall 2019, Fall 2021)

           FIN3500: Financial Management (Winter 2021)

Tulane University, 2016 - 2019

FINE7130: Advanced Financial Management (MBA course) (Spring 2019)

FINE4140: Risk Management (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

FINE4110: Investments in Equities (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)

University of British Columbia, 2014

COMM374: Applied Financial Markets (Winter 2014)

Awards and Honors

• Best Paper Award, JPMCC International Symposium (CU Denver) 2022

• Recognition of Teaching Excellence, Dean’s Office, ESG UQAM, 2019-2020 

Grants and Funding 

• The Quebec Research Fund - Society and Culture (FRQSC, Fonds de recherche du Québec - Sociéte et culture) Research Support of New Academics (NP), Quebec Provincial Research-funding Agency, 2023-2026

• The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant (as the principal investigator), Canadian Federal Research-funding Agency, 2022-2024 (with Jingyu Zhang)

• NFTs Tokens and Gamification of Investment Decision Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2022-2023 (with Alexandre F. Roch)

• PAFARC (Programme d'aide financière à la recherche et à la création, Financial assistance program for research and creation) Volet 2, ESG, UQAM, 2022

• Quebec's FinTech Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020-2021 (with Xiaozhou Zhou)

• FinTech and COVID-19 Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020 (with Maya Cara and Lora Dimitrova)

• PAFARC (Programme d'aide financière à la recherche et à la création, Financial assistance program for research and creation) Volet 1, ESG UQAM, 2019-2020

• The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant (as the collaborator), Canadian Federal Research-funding Agency, 2016-2018 (with Georgios Skoulakis (PI) and Jinming Xue)

• Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research (academic year grant ×2), Tulane, 2018-2019

• Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research (summer grant), Tulane, 2018

• Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research (academic year grant ×2) , Tulane, 2017-2018

• Faculty Development Grants, Tulane, 2018

• Undergraduate Activities Funds, Tulane, 2017, 2018

Ad-Hoc Journal Reviewer

• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Quarterly Journal of Finance, Journal of Finance Research Letters, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Commodity Markets, Scientific Reports

Advising

• MSc Essay Supervisor, Master of Applied Finance program, ESG UQAM, 2022-present

• PhD dissertation committee, external member of the joint PhD program, Concordia University, 2019-present 

• Academic Year Award for Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research (four students), Tulane, 2017-2018, 2018-2019

• Summer Award for for Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research, Tulane (one student), 2018

Personal

Citizenship: Canada 

Languages: English, French, Mandarin