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 research lies at the intersection of empirical corporate finance and investments, with a focus on informed and insider trading and information production. I study how the behavior of economic agents, along with the information, incentives, and political and social forces that surround them, shapes prices and decisions across financial and product markets. 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.