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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?"
Recent Publications
"Socially Responsible Corporate Customers," (with Rui Dai and Hao Liang), Forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics.
"Drivers of Global Market Integration: A Machine Learning Approach," (with Amir Akbari and Bruno Solnik), Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 61, March 2021, 82-102.
"Emerging Markets are Catching Up: Economic or Financial Integration?," (with Amir Akbari and Bruno Solnik), Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, 55(7), 2020, 2270-2303.
"International Market Integration: A Survey," (with Amir Akbari), Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, 49, 2020, 161-195.
"Insider Trading and Stock Price Efficiency Around the World," (with Donghyun Kim, Qinghai Wang, and Crystal Wang), Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, 48, 2019, 727-776.
"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), Journal of Corporate Finance, 42, 2017, 267-286.
"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), Review of Finance 20(5), 2016, 1867-1910.
Grants
Project Title Role Award Amount Year Awarded Granting Agency Project TitleHow Firms Combat Climate Change: International Evidence RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$91,520.00 Year Awarded2021-2025 Granting AgencySSHRC Insight Research Grant Project TitleNational Pensions, Investment Policies, and Financial Markets: Evidence from Canada and Around the World RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$67,120.00 Year Awarded2017-2021 Granting AgencySSHRC Insight Research Grant
Lilian Ng
Professor of Finance; Scotiabank Chair in International Finance
Ph.D. in Finance (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, PA)M.B.A. (Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY)
B.B.A. (National University of Singapore, Singapore)