Research

Publications

Working Papers

1. The Fabric of Capital in Private Equity: How Network Affects LP Investments and Returns, with Hong Zhang

• Finalist for AsianFA Best Paper Award, 2024

• Co-Principal Investigator, ASEAN Business Research Initiative (LKCSB-CKGSB) Research Grant, SGD13,870, 2022-2024

• Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (Sydney 2024), CKGSB-SMU ASEAN Business Research Initiative Seminar (Singapore 2024), Annual Private Market Research Conference (Lausanne 2024), AsianFA (Macau 2024), Singapore Rising Scholar Conference (Singapore 2024), NSF Annual Conference on Network Science and Economics (Minneapolis 2024)

2. Political Homophily and Supply Chain Relationship, with Zhihong Chen, Ting Dai, and Haibin Yang 

• Reject & Resubmit at Production and Operations Management

• CJAR Spring Workshop Best Paper Award, 2025

• AFA Travel Grant, 2025

3. Salient Cues of Economic Transitions in Analyst Forecasting: Evidence from the Electric Vehicle Era, with Xueqing Geng, Jarrad Harford, and Frank Weikai Li

• AFBC CFA Institute's Best Paper on Sustainable Investment, 2025

• Dishui Lake Finance Conference International (Shanghai 2026), AsianFA (Seoul 2026), ABFER Poster Session (Singapore 2026), MFA (Chicago 2026), FARS Midyear Meeting (San Antonio 2026), Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (Sydney 2025), FMA (Vancouver 2025), ABR-Fudan Joint Conference (Shanghai 2025)