Finance Student Papers

Recent Dissertation Titles

  • Essays in Asset Pricing and International Finance" Ramin Hassan (2022)
  • Essays on FinTech and Machine Learning in Finance" Keer Yang (2022)
  • Essays on Firms, Finance, and Macroeconomy" Dan Su (2022) 
  • "Essays on Macro-Finance" Chao Ying (2021)
  • "Two Essays on Dynamic Learning Under Information Asymmetry" Fangyuan Yu (2021)
  • "Extrapolative Expectation, Financial Frictions, and Asset Prices" Yao Deng (2020)
  • "Financing of Innovation Under Information Asymmetry" Xuelin Li (2020)
  • "Agency Frictions, Corporate Liquidity and Asset Prices" Jincheng Tong (2019)
  • "Bank Liquidity Supply and Corporate investment during the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis" Wei Zhang (2019)
  • "Essays on Banking" Kaushalendra Kishore (2019)
  • "Essays on Asset Pricing" Ding Luo (2018)
  • "Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance" Ali Sanati (2018)
  • "Nominal Frictions, Firm Leverage, and Investment" John Pokorny (2017)
  • "Debt Structure as a Strategic Bargaining Tool" Yue Qiu (2017)

Recent Graduate Placements

  • Ramin Hassan, 2022, Cornerstone Research 
  • Keer Yang, 2022, University of California - Davis
  • Dan Su, 2022, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
  • Chao Ying, 2021, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Fangyuan Yu, 2021, China-Association of Southeast Asian Nations Institute of Financial Cooperation 
  • Yao Deng, 2020, University of Connecticut
  • Xuelin Li, 2020, University of South Carolina
  • Kaushalendra Kishore, 2019, Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (Mumbai) 
  • Ding Luo, 2018, City University of Hong Kong
  • Ali Sanati, 2018, American University - Washington D.C. 
  • John Pokorny, 2017, Cornerstone Research 
  • Yue Qiu, 2017, Temple University 

Student Publications and Presentations

  • "Does Capital Account Liberalization Affect Income Inequality", 2021, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 83:2, 377-410, Dan Su with X. Li 
  • "Monetary Surprises, Debt Structure and Credit Misallocation", 2021, American Finance Association, Midwest Finance Association, Southwest Finance Association, Yuchen Chang
  • "Reconnecting Exchange Rates with Gravitas", 2021, NBER Summer Institute, Ramin Hassan with E. Loualiche, C. Ward and A. Pecora
  • "Trust an Entry Barrier: Evidence from FinTech Adoption", 2020, CEPR European Conference on Household Finance, 2021, China FinTech Research Conference, Keer Yang
  • "Do Bankers Matter for Main Street? The Financial Intermediary Labor Channel", 2020, Midwest Finance Association, Yuchen Chen with J. Favilukis, X. Lin and X. Zhao 
  • "The Effect of P2P Lending on Traditional Credit Markets", 2020, Brazilian Central Bank, Alexandre Pecora 
  • "Dynamic Adverse Selection and Asset Sales", 2020, Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Fangyuan Yu
  • "Secret Scouting", 2020, Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Fangyuan Yu with X. Li 
  • "Extrapolative Expectations, Corporate Activities and Asset Prices", 2019, Finance Management Association Doctoral Consortium, 2020, Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Western Finance Association Annual Meeting, Yao Deng 
  • "Heterogenous Beliefs and FOMC Announcements", 2019, Econometric Society, Chao Ying
  • "How Does the Stock Market Absorb Shocks?", 2018, Journal of Financial Economics, Ali Sanati with M. Frank
  • "How Does the Stock Market Absorb Shocks?", 2018, Midwest Finance Association, Eastern Finance Association, Econometric Society-North American Summer Meetings, Financial Management Association, Ali Sanati
  • "Product Market Competition and the Profitability Premium", 2018, European Finance Association Annual Meeting, Financial Intermediation Research Society Annual Meeting, Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Yao Deng
  • "Labor Hiring and Discount Rates," 2017, Society for Economic Dynamics, Ding Luo with F. Belo, A. Donangelo, and X. Lin
  • "Capital Heterogeneity, Time-To-Build, and Return Predictability," 2017, Northern Finance Association, Ding Luo
  • "Organized Labor and Loan Pricing: A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis," 2017, Journal of Corporate Finance, Yue Qiu
  • "Debt Structure as a Strategic Bargaining Tool, " 2017, Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Yue Qiu
  • "Labor Adjustment Costs and Risk Management, " 2017, Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Yue Qiu