Research Papers
Working papers:
“Does Fundraising Pressure Incentivize Strategic Venture Capital Deal Pricing?”, with Nick Turner and Jason Zein. Presented at: WFA, FIRN, FMA, AFBC.
“Wrong for rights? Short sales in the global rights issues market”, with Cameron Yuen and Waiman Liu. Presented at: VICIF (best paper), NFA, FIRN.
“Patient VCs vs. Deep-Pocketed Incumbents: VC Financing Strategies in the Presence of Competitive Threats”, with Roham Razaei and Jason Zein. Presented at: EFA, SFS Asia Pacific, CICF, FMA Asia.
“Does Being In-Person Matter? Evidence from Venture Capital Syndication”, with Rastin Seysan and Jason Zein. Presented at: CICF, FIRN Corp Fin.
“Do Multinational Firms Benefit from Weak Employment Protection Abroad? Evidence from Cash Holdings”, with My Nguyen. Presented at: FMA.
“Operational Proximity and Cross-border Shareholder Monitoring”, with Fariborz Moshirian and Ji Hyun Tak. Presented at: AFBC, FIRN, FMA Asia.
“Foreign Institutional Investors and Corporate Investments: Evidence from Local Disaster Shocks”, with Lin Cai and Fariborz Moshirian.
“Foreign Expansion and Corporate Innovation - Cross-Country Evidence”, with Lily Nguyen and Hoang Luong. Presented at: Asian FA, FIRN Corp Fin.
Published papers:
“Foreign Ties that Bind: Cross-border Firm Expansions and Fund Portfolio Allocation around the World”, with Fariborz Moshirian, Grace Shu Tian and Eliza Wu. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
“Internal Capital Markets in Family Business Groups during the Global Financial Crisis”, with Alvin Ang, Ronald Masulis, and Jason Zein. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
“Proprietary Knowledge Protection and Product Market Performance”, with Justin Nguyen and Buhui Qiu. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
“Why Do Family Business Groups Expand by Creating New Public Firms?”, with Ronald Masulis, and Jason Zein. Management Science, forthcoming.
“Value Creation from Changing the Old Guard: The Impact of Controlling Shareholder Heterogeneity on Firm performance and Corporate Policies”, with Hua Deng, Fariborz Moshirian, and Jason Zein, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 48, 1781- 1811, 2013.
“Overnight Public Information, Order Placement, and Price Discovery during the Preopening Period”, with Fariborz Moshirian and Giang (Lily) Nguyen, Journal of Banking and Finance 36, pp. 2837-2851, 2012.
“Corporate Governance, Cost of Capital and Performance: Evidence from Australian Firms”, with Jo-Ann Suchard and Jason Zein, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, pp. 84-93, 2012.
“Family Business Groups around the World: Financing Advantages, Control Motivations and Organizational Choices”, with Ronald Masulis and Jason Zein, Review of Financial Studies 24, pp.3556-3600, 2011.
“Large Foreign Ownership and Firm-Level Stock Return Volatility in Emerging Markets”, with Donghui Li, Quang N Nguyen, and Steven X Wei, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46, 1127-1155, 2011.
“Corporate Governance and Alternative Performance Measures: Evidence from Australian Firms”, with Jo-Ann Suchard and Jason Zein, Australian Journal of Management 36, 371-386, 2011.
“Pre-IPO Ownership and its Impact on the IPO Process”, with Arash Alavi and Toan Pham, Journal of Banking and Finance 32, 2361-2375, 2008.
“When Financial Institutions are Large Shareholders – The Role of Corporate Governance Environments around the World”, with Donghui Li, Fariborz Moshirian and Jason Zein, Journal of Finance 61, 2975-3007, 2006.
“Public Information Arrival and Volatility of Intraday Stock Returns”, with Petko Kalev, Waiman Liu, and Elvis Jarnecic, Journal of Banking and Finance 28, 1441-1467, 2004.
“Underpricing, Stock Allocation, Ownership Structure and Post-Listing Liquidity of Newly Listed Firms”, with Petko Kalev and Adam Steen, Journal of Banking and Finance 27, 919-947, 2003.