Meng Gao

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the School of Business, University of Connecticut. I received my Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020. My primary interests lie in empirical corporate finance, focusing on using quasi-experimental settings to identify the effects of financial and regulatory shocks on economic agents’ behavior. The results in my papers carry implications for the informational efficiency of stock prices and corporate governance. My research topics cover informed trading, information production, political economy, and executive compensation.