Xiang (Shawn) Zheng
Assistant Professor of Finance
School of Business, University of Connecticut
Email: xiang.zheng 'at' uconn.edu
Research Interest: FinTech, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance
*My first name is pronounced in the same way as Shawn.
Research Papers
The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021
The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021
Conferences and workshops: AEA 2022, MFA 2022, FMA 2021, EasternFA 2021, SFA 2020, Georgetown Global Virtual Seminar on FinTech
with Thomas Chemmanur, Manish Gupta, and Karen Simonyan
Conferences and workshops: FIRS 2022, 4th Greater Boston Annual Corporate Governance Workshop, China Financial Research Conference 2021
The Role of Investor Attention in Seasoned Equity Offerings: Theory and Evidence
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
Conferences and workshops: AFA (Poster) 2020, EasternFA 2021, FMA 2020
Underwriter Networks, Information Asymmetry, and Seasoned Equity Offerings
with Thomas Chemmanur, and Karen Simonyan
Semi-finalist for the FMA Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance, 2020
Conferences and workshops: FMA 2020
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.