Xiang (Shawn) Zheng
Assistant Professor of Finance
School of Business, University of Connecticut
Email: xiang.zheng 'at' uconn.edu
Curriculum Vitae Google Scholar SSRN
Research Interest: FinTech/Innovation, Corporate Finance, Banking
*My first name is pronounced similarly to Shawn.
Selected Publication
How can Innovation Screening be Improved? A Machine Learning Analysis with Economic Consequences for Firm Performance (solo-authored) [SSRN]
Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021
The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021
Selected Working Papers
How Does VC Activism Backfire in Startup Experimentation? [SSRN]
with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu
Conferences: AFA (PhD Poster) 2025, AFBC 2024, Bretton Woods Ski Conference 2025, TAMU Young Scholars Finance Consortium 2025
Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Consumer Spending and Product Sales [SSRN]
with Meng Gao
Conferences: CICF 2024
GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers [SSRN]
with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang
Featured in Hutchins Roundup
Conferences: CEAR-CenFIS Conference 2024, UEA North America 2024, FDIC Bank Research Conference 2024, AREUEA National Conference 2024, CICF 2024, FIRS 2024, MFA 2024, EasternFA 2024, Wharton Financial Regulation Conference 2024
Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? [SSRN]
with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance
Conferences: UMass Isenberg Finance Conference 2025, AFA 2025, EuropeanFA 2024, NBER Summer Institute 2024, NFA 2024, Harvard-Wharton Insolvency and Restructuring Conference 2024, Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency Seminar 2024, Virtual Corporate Finance Seminar 2024
From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech [SSRN][NBER WP 33297]
with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian
Conferences: SFS Cavalcade 2025, CEAR-CenFIS Conference 2024, EuropeanFA 2024, Santiago Finance Workshop 2024, CFRC 2024, MFA 2024, NFA 2024, FDIC Bank Research Conference 2024, AFBC 2023, GSU-RFS Fintech Conference 2023, WEFI Virtual Seminar
What is the Role of the Options Market? Evidence from Newly Public Companies [SSRN]
with Thomas Chemmanur and Chayawat Ornthanalai
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
Conferences: 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