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Honours
2020 AFAANZ Best Paper Award in Corporate Governance, "Labor Voice in Corporate Governance: Evidence from Opportunistic Insider Trading."
2020 AJFS Best Paper Award (Sponsored by Mirae Asset Global Investments), "Insider Trading, Informativeness, and Price Efficiency Around the World."
2019 Moskowitz Prize (Berkeley-Haas's Institute for Business and Social Impact), "Socially Responsible Corporate Customers."
2019 FMA Asia/Pacific Conference, Best Corporate Finance Paper Nominee, "Socially Responsible Corporate Customers."
2018 The 13th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets' Outstanding Paper Award; and FMA's Best Corporate Finance Paper Nominee, "Socially Responsible Corporate Customers."
2018 Asian Finance & Accounting's Research Excellence Award (Sponsored by Elsevier and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal); and FMA-Asia Pacific's Best Investment Paper Nominee, "Emerging Markets are Catching Up: Economic or Financial Integration?"
2013 Lubar School of Business Gold Star Teaching Award (Undergraduate Course Instruction)
2013 Asian Finance Association's Best Paper Award (Sponsored by SIRCA), "Does PIN Affect Asset Prices Around the World?"
2012 Izzet Sahin Research Award
2012 Chinese Finance Association's Best Paper Award, "Foreign Investor Heterogeneity and Stock Liquidity Around the World."
2011 TCFA's Best Paper on Chinese Financial Markets, Best Paper Award, "Foreign Investor Heterogeneity and Stock Liquidity Around the World."
Recent Publications
"Socially Responsible Corporate Customers," (with Rui Dai and Hao Liang), Forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics.
"Emerging Markets are Catching Up: Economic or Financial Integration?," (with Amir Akbari and Bruno Solnik), Forthcoming Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis
"The Fading of Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity and Global Development," (with Yelena Larkin and Jie Zhu), Journal of Corporate Finance 50, 2018, 294-322.
Dividend Informativeness and Agency Problems: A Cross-Country Analysis," (with Wen He, Nataliya Zaiats, and Bohui Zhang), SSRN Top Ten List, Journal of Corporate Finance, 42, 2017, 267-286. SSRN Top Ten List.
"Do Managers Matter for Corporate Innovation?," (with ChanHo Cho, Scott Hsu, and Joseph Halford), Journal of Corporate Finance, 36, 2016, 206-229.
"Foreign Investor Heterogeneity and Stock Liquidity Around the World," (with Fei Wu, Jing Yu, and Bohui Zhang), 2011 TCFA's Best Paper on Chinese Financial Markets; 2012 Chinese Finance Association's Best Paper Award; Review of Finance 20(5), 2016, 1867-1910; SSRN Top Ten List.
"Does PIN Affect Asset Prices Around the World?," (with Sandy Lai and Bohui Zhang), Journal of Financial Economics, 114, 2014, 178-195, 2013. SIRCA's Best Paper Award.
"Information Environment and Equity Risk Premium Volatility Around the World," (with Sie Ting Lau and Bohui Zhang), Management Science, 58, 2012, 1322-1340; SSRN Top Ten List.
"Does Shareholder Approval Requirement of Equity Compensation Plans Matter?," (with Valeriy Sibilkov, Qinghai Wang, and Nataliya Zaiats), Journal of Corporate Finance, 17, 2011, 1510-1530.
"Are Better Governed Funds Better Monitors?," (Wen-Hsiu Chou and Qinghai Wang), Journal of Corporate Finance, 17, 2011, 1254-1271; SSRN Top Ten List.
"Product Market Competition and Corporate Governance," (with Wen-Hsiu Chou, Valeriy Sibilkov, and Qinghai Wang), Review of Development Finance, 1, 2011, 114-130. 2009. PACAP's Best Corporate Finance Paper.
"Does Corporate Headquarters Location Matter for Firm Capital Structure," (with Wen-lian Gao and Qinghai Wang), Financial Management, 40, 2011, 113-138; SSRN Top Ten List.
"The World Price of Home Bias," (with Sie Ting Lau and Bohui Zhang), Journal of Financial Economics, 97, 2010, 191-217; Lead Article; cited in The New York Times, 5 August 2011, Resisting the Urge to Run Away From Home"; SSRN Top Ten List.
"Peer Effects in the Trading Decisions of Individual Investors," (with Fei Wu), Financial Management, Summer 2010, 807-831.
"Home Bias in Foreign Investment Decisions," (Dongmin Ke and Qinghai Wang), Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 2010, 960-979; JIBS Leading Online Finance Article.
Grants
Project Title Role Award Amount Year Awarded Granting Agency Project TitleNational Pensions, Investment Policies, and Financial Markets: Evidence from Canada and around the World RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$67,120.00 Year Awarded2017-2020 Granting AgencySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - Insight Grant