Selected Working Papers

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

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics 

• Featured in NBER Reporter

• SFS Cavalcades | EFA | NFA | MFA | FDIC | FRB Atlanta | GSU-RFS Fintech Conference

2. Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending, with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen

• Reject & Resubmitted, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

• ASSA | FIFI | OCC | SIF | NEU Finance Conference 

3. How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation? with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu

• Media Coverage: ProMarket

• NBER SI | AFA PhD Poster | AFBC | Bretton Woods Ski Conference | TAMU Young Scholars Finance Consortium

4. GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers, with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang

• Revise & Resubmit, Management Science 

• CICF | FIRS | MFA | FDIC | FRB Atlanta/Philadelphia | Wharton Financial Regulation Conference

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

• CICF

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

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

• Chicago-Harvard-Wharton Insolvency & Restructuring Conference

8. The Staging Effect on House Sales (draft available soon), with Puja Bhattacharya, Sherry Li, Yu Wang, and Cedric Wu

• AEA RCT Registry: AEARCTR-0016398

• MFA 

Published and Accepted Papers

1. How can Innovation Screening be Improved? A Machine Learning Analysis with Economic Consequences for Firm Performance (solo-authored) 

• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2025

• 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 and Benjamin Iverson

• Journal of Finance, conditionally accepted

• The House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing: Bankruptcy Law: Overview and Legislative Reforms

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

• Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming 

Teaching

Introductions to Financial Models (FinTech): Fall 2022 - Fall 2024 

• Last course evaluation: 5.0/5.0

Investments & Security Analysis (BA): Fall 2021, Spring 2022

• Last course evaluation: 5.0/5.0

Financial Modeling (MBA): Fall 2021

• Last course evaluation: 5.0/5.0