UMass Boston

Financial Intermediation, Banking and Financial Institutions, Corporate Credit Market, Securities Issuance, Corporate Finance

PhD, University of South Carolina

"Firms' Response to Credit Supply: Evidence from Upsized Corporate Bond Offerings."(with Edith Hotchkiss, Liying Wang, and Hurong Sun), forthcoming, Management Science.

"Lending Relationship and the Pricing of Syndicated Loans. " (with Donghang Zhang and Yafei Zhang), 2024, Management Science, 70, 1114-1136

"Sovereign Wealth Funds and Cost of Debt: Evidence from Syndicated Loans." (with Ryan Chen and Feiyu Liu), 2023, Journal of Corporate Finance, 82, 102446

"Social Capital and Individual Ethics: Evidence from Financial Advisers Misconduct.” (with John Bai, Chenguang Shang, and Chi Wan), 2022, Journal of Business Ethics 181, 495–518

“The Dark Side of Shareholder Litigation: Evidence from Corporate Takeovers." (with Yongqiang Chu), 2021, Financial Management 50, 845-873

“Bank Capital and Credit Supply: Evidence from Syndicated Loans." (with Yongqiang Chu and Donghang Zhang), 2019, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 54, 667-694

“Relationship Banking and Loan Syndicate Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors.”, (with Rongbing Huang and Donghang Zhang), 2018, The Financial Review 53, 461-498 (Lead Article)

Professional Services:

• Associate Editor, The Financial Review
• Ad-hoc Referee: Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, The Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Research in International Business and Finance, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Business Research

Honors and Awards:

• College of Management Excellence Fund, College of Management, UMass Boston, 2024
• Donald Shephard Endowed Award for Distinguished Research, College of Management, UMass Boston, 2018, 2022
• Semi-finalist of the FMA Best Paper Award for Corporate Finance, 2018, 2022
• Corcoran Endowed Summer Teaching Fellowship, College of Management, UMass Boston, 2021
• Semi-finalist of the FMA Best Paper Award for Financial Markets and Institution, 2019
• Alfred G. Smith Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Moore School of Business, Univ. of South Carolina, 2014
• Charles Coker Endowed Graduate Fellowship, Univ. of South Carolina, 2013