Published and Accepted Papers

1. How can Innovation Screening be Improved? A Machine Learning Analysis with Economic Consequences for Firm Performance

   • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 60, Issue 8, December 2025, pp. 3722 - 3752

• The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021; The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021

2. Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? with Edith Hotchkiss (BC) and Benjamin Iverson (BYU)

   • Journal of Finance, forthcoming 

• Featured in Carroll School News, the House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing

3. How Does Private Firm Patenting Affect Anti-Takeover Provisions in Corporate Charters? Evidence from Initial Public Offerings, with Thomas Chemmanur (BC), Manish Gupta (Nottingham), and Karen Simonyan (Suffolk)

   • Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming 

Selected Working Papers

1. From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech, with Manju Puri (Duke) and Yiming Qian (UConn)

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics 

• Featured in NBER Reporter

2. GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers, with Natee Amornsiripanitch (Philly Fed), Philip Strahan (BC), and Song Zhang (Delaware)

• Revise & Resubmit, Management Science 

3. Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending, with Sijie Wang (CUHK SZ) and Siyi Shen (Private sector)

   • Revise & Resubmit, Management Science 

4. How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation? with Xuelin Li (Columbia), Sijie Wang (CUHK SZ), and Jiajie Xu (Iowa)

• Featured in ProMarket

5. Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Product Sales, with Meng Gao (UConn)

6. What is the Role of the Options Market? Evidence from Newly Public Companies, with Thomas Chemmanur (BC) and Chayawat Ornthanalai (Toronto)

7. The Economic Impact of Insolvency Reforms Around the World (draft available soon), with James Albertus (CMU), Edith Hotchkiss (BC), and Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez (SMU)

8. Visual Cues and Valuation: Evidence from the Housing Market, with Puja Bhattacharya (Arkansas), Sherry Li (Arkansas), Yu Wang (Arkansas), and Cedric Wu (Private sector)

• AEA RCT Registry: AEARCTR-0016398