Working Papers

Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Consumer Spending and Product Sales [SSRN]

• with Meng Gao

• Presentations: CICF 2024, UConn

Housing Speculation, GSEs, and Credit Market Spillovers  [SSRN] [NBER WP 32209]

• with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang

• Featured in Hutchins Roundup

• Presentations: AREUEA 2024, CICF 2024, FIRS 2024, MFA 2024, EasternFA 2024, Wharton Financial Regulation Conference 2024, American Bankers Association, BC

Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? [SSRN]

• with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson

• Presentations: Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency Seminar 2024, Virtual Corporate Finance Seminar 2024, NBER SI 2024 Entrepreneurship, BC, UConn, USI, UNSW, UTS, Kansas

From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech [SSRN]

• with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian

• Presentations: MFA 2024, AFBC 2023, GSU-RFS Fintech Conference 2023, WEFI Virtual Seminar, Duke, UConn, Virginia Tech, Alabama, PKU, Fudan

Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending [SSRN]

• with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen

• Featured in Bank Policy Institute Newsletter

• Presentations: AMES 2022, ASSA-IBEFA 2023, FIFI 2022, EasternFA 2023, FMA 2022, SIF 2023, International Conference on Finance & Technology 2022, Northeastern Finance Conference 2023, OCC symposium on The Implications of Fintech for Banking 2022, UConn

How can Innovation Screening be Improved? A Machine Learning Analysis with Economic Consequences for Firm Performance [SSRN]

• The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021

• The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021 

• Presentations: AEA 2022, MFA 2022, FMA 2021, EasternFA 2021, Georgetown Global Virtual Seminar on FinTech, Luohan Academy

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

How Does Private Firm Innovation Affect Anti-Takeover Provisions in Corporate Charters? Evidence from Initial Public Offerings  [SSRN] 

• with Thomas Chemmanur, Manish Gupta, and Karen Simonyan

• Presentations: MFA 2024, FIRS 2022, 4th Greater Boston Annual Corporate Governance Workshop, CFRC 2021 

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Law and Economics

Seasoned Equity Offerings, Limited Investor Attention, and Post-Announcement Drift: Theory and Evidence  [SSRN] 

• with Thomas Chemmanur, Karen Simonyan, and Yu Wang

• Semi-finalist for the FMA Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance, 2020

• Featured in Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog

• Presentations: AEA (Poster) 2023, AFA (Poster) 2020, EasternFA 2021, FMA 2020, FTG Summer School 2023, Telfer Conference on Corporate Finance and Banking 2023 

Underwriter Networks, Information Asymmetry, and Seasoned Equity Offerings  [SSRN] 

• with Thomas Chemmanur and Karen Simonyan

• Semi-finalist for the FMA Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance, 2020

• Presentations: FMA 2020, MFA 2023