Current Academic Position

Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies

The Education University of Hong Kong

Assistant Professor of Finance, August 2025 to Present

Education

The University of Hong Kong

PhD in Finance

Wuhan University

Bachelor of Economics (Financial Engineering)

Selected Publications

1. Investment Efficiency and Product Market Competition, with Neal Stoughton and Kit Pong Wong, December 2017, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

2. Natural Disasters, Technology Diversity, and Operating Performance, October 2018, with Po-Hsuan Hsu, Hsiao-Hui Lee, and Shu-Cing Peng, Review of Economics and Statistics

3. Why Do High Dispersion Stocks Earn Low Returns? Evidence from Institutional Ownership, February 2022, with Chuan-Yang Hwang and Keith Wong, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

4. Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm's Resilience to Natural Disasters, December 2024, with Po-Hsuan Hsu and Hsiao-Hui Lee,  Journal of Corporate Finance

5. Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Design Innovation, Forthcoming, with Peng-Chia Chiu, Po-Hsuan Hsu and Feng Tian,  Journal of International Accounting Research

Selected Working Papers

1. Competitive Corporate Social Responsibility, with Neal Stoughton, and Kit Pong Wong

2. Competitive Shocks and R&D Investment as Insurance

3. The Impact of Financial Fraud on Technological Innovation: Myopia, Job Security, and Loss of Trust, with Po-Hsuan Hsu, and Feng Tian

4. Public Listing, Managerial Short-termism, and Brand Development, with David H. Hsu, Po-Hsuan Hsu, and Yunan Liu

5. Social Globalization and Design Innovation, with Po-Hsuan Hsu and Jeffrey Furman

Grants

Principal Investigator, General Research Fund (GRF), RGC, Hong Kong, 395,000 HKD, 2016-2019

Ad-Hoc Referee

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Financial Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting