PhD Concentrations 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