Assistant Professor of Finance, 2021 ~ Current
School of Management and Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Ph.D., Finance, University of Georgia, 2021
B.B.A., Finance, University of Georgia, 2015
Labor and Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance
The Employee Clientele of Corporate Leverage: Evidence from Family Labor Income Diversification (with Jack He, Tao Shu, and Huan Yang)
- Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, pp.1-41.
Do Short Sellers Affect Corporate Innovation? Evidence from A Policy Experiment (with Jack He and Xuan Tian)
- The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 14(1), pp.125-165.
The Disappearing IPO Puzzle and the Shift Toward Acquisitions: New Insights from Proprietary US Census Data on Private Firms (with Thomas Chemmanur, Jack He, and Tao Shu)
- The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, p.cfaf023.
Within-firm Labor Heterogeneity and Firm Performance: Evidence from Employee Political Ideology Conflicts
Presentations (*accepted but not presented due to COVID-19): 2019 China International Conference in Finance, 2020 Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2020 American Finance Association Annual Meeting Ph.D. Student Poster Session, 2021 American Economic Association Annual Meeting Poster Session, 2019 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, 2019 Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2019 Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2019 Summer Research Boot Camp on Corporate Finance and Financial Market at PBCSF, 2020 Labor and Finance Conference Poster Session*, CUHK Shenzhen, CUHK, Nanjing University, SKEMA Business School, University of Georgia
Venture Labor: A Nonfinancial Signal for Start-up Success (with Sean Cao, Jack He, and Luna Lin)
Presentations: 2024 SFS Cavalcade, 2024 MFA Annual Meeting, 2024 FARS Midyear Meeting, 2023 Edinburgh Corporate Finance Conference, 2023 LBS Accounting Symposium, 2022 Napa/Sonoma Finance Conference, 2023 ITAM Finance Conference, 2023 EFA Annual Meeting, 2023 NFA Annual Meeting, 2022 SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific, 2022 CICF Annual Conference, 2023 Bretton Woods Accounting and Finance Ski Conference, 2022 SFA Annual Meeting, 2021 SWFA Annual Meeting, 2021 Hawaii Accounting Research Conference, Georgia State University, University of Georgia, University of Maryland, University of Kansas, Lehigh University, CUHK Shenzhen, Xiamen University, University of Amsterdam, City University of Macau
Similarity Breeds Trust: Political Homophily and CEO-Board Communication (with Sudipto Dasgupta, Ran Guo, and Tao Shu)
Presentations: 2024 AFA Annual Meeting, 2024 FIRS Conference, 2022 CICF Annual Conference, 2022 SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific, 2022 FMA Annual Meeting, University of Manchester, CUHK Shenzhen
Distress Risk and Earnings Management (with Danny Qin)
Presentations: 2017 FMA Annual Meeting, 2018 SFA Annual Meeting
Discussant
China International Conference in Finance, 2022, 2023
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, 2018, 2019, 2021
Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2018, 2019
Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2019, 2021
Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2021
Summer Research Boot Camp on Corporate Finance and Financial Market at PBCSF, 2019
Ad hoc Referee
Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Modeling, Journal of Empirical Finance, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies