Xiang (Shawn) Zheng
Assistant Professor of Finance
School of Business, University of Connecticut
Email: xiang.zheng 'at' uconn.edu
Research Interest: FinTech/Innovation, Corporate Finance, Household Finance
*My first name is pronounced in the same way as Shawn.
Research Papers
Housing Speculation, GSEs, and Credit Market Spillovers [SSRN]
with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang
MFA 2024, Boston College
From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech
with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian
MFA 2024, AFBC 2023, GSU-RFS Fintech Conference 2023, WEFI Virtual Seminar, University of Alabama, University of Connecticut, Fudan University, Seoul National University
Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending [SSRN]
with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen
AMES 2022, ASSA-IBEFA 2023, FIFI 2022, EasternFA 2023, FMA 2022, International Conference on Finance & Technology 2022, Northeastern University Finance Conference 2023, OCC symposium on The Implications of Fintech for Banking 2022, Summer Institute of Finance 2023
Featured in Bank Policy Institute Newsletter
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
AEA 2022, MFA 2022, FMA 2021, EasternFA 2021, Georgetown Global Virtual Seminar on FinTech
Barbarians at the Gate? Informed Option Trading on Newly Public Firms [SSRN]
with Thomas Chemmanur, Padma Kadiyala, and Chayawat Ornthanalai
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
MFA 2024, FIRS 2022, 4th Greater Boston Annual Corporate Governance Workshop, China Financial Research Conference 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
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
FMA 2020, MFA 2023
How Does Greater Bank Competition Affect Borrower Screening? Evidence From China's WTO Entry
with Thomas Chemmanur, Jiaqi Qin, Yan Sun, and Qianqian Yu
Journal of Corporate Finance, 65 (2020): 101776.