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Xiang (Shawn) Zheng

Assistant Professor of Finance

School of Business, University of Connecticut

Email: xiang.zheng 'at' uconn.edu

Research Interest: FinTech, Corporate Finance, Household Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance

*My first name is pronounced in the same way as Shawn.

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]

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
FIRS 2022, 4th Greater Boston Annual Corporate Governance Workshop, China Financial Research Conference 2021

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, Telfer Conference on Corporate Finance and Banking 2023

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