Welcome! I am a tenure-track assistant professor of finance at the University of Delaware (since 2022).
I obtained my Ph.D. in Finance from Boston College in 2022, an M.Sc. in Finance from Bocconi University, and a bachelor's degree from Lanzhou University.
My current research focuses on the housing market, banking, and the political economy of finance.
Email: songz@udel.edu
Publications
Do CEOs Affect Employee Political Choices? (with Ilona Babenko and Viktar Fedaseyeu) Review of Financial Studies, 2020.
Media: Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and Washington Post
Banks as Lenders of First Resort: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis (with Lei Li and Philip E. Strahan) Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2020.
Executives in Politics (with Ilona Babenko and Viktar Fedaseyeu), Management Science, 2023.
Working Papers
Aging and Housing Returns (with Natee Amornsiripanitch and Philip E. Strahan) R&R JFE
Media: MarketWatch, CNBC, New York Times, Homes.com
Political Ideology in Patent Examination: Examiner Partisanship and Green Innovation (with Tao Shu, Fei Xie, and Wenrui Zhang)
GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers (with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip E. Strahan, and Xiang Zheng) R&R Management Science
Politicization of the Supreme Court and Firm Value: Evidence from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death (with Tor-Erik Bakke, Hamed Mahmudi, and Aazam Virani) R&R Review of Finance
Climate Change, the Partisan Divide, and Exposure to Climate Risk
Runner-up prize in the 2nd Annual FIASI-Gabelli School Student Research Competition on ESG (2022)
Best PhD Paper in Financial Institution SWFA 2022
Downsides of Corporate Political Connections: Evidence from Mass Shootings
Teaching
FINC312 Intermediate Financial Management, University of Delaware (Eval: 4.54/5.00)