Research

Working Papers

📝 Toxic Emissions and Corporate Green Innovation
with Suman Neupane (UQ) and Kelvin Tan (UQ)

📝 Director Job Security and Corporate Environmental Policies
with Suman Neupane (UQ) and Kelvin Tan (UQ)

  • Presentations: 2024 FMA Annual Meeting; XJTLU Research Seminar; 7th FIRN PhD Symposium; 2024 SFiC Annual Conference (Scheduled).

📝 Environmental Externalities of Corporate Culture: Evidence from Firm Pollution
with Suman Neupane (UQ) and Kelvin Tan (UQ)

📝 Does Green Die in Opportunism? Opportunistic NPE Litigation and Green Corporate Innovation
with Piers Herring (UQ), Emdad Islam (Monash), and Suman Neupane (UQ)

  • Presentations: 2023 CFRI&CIRF; 2023 SFiC Annual Conference; 2023 NZFM; 4th CEFGroup Sustainable Finance and Accounting Symposium.

📝 Academic CEOs and Corporate Innovation
with George J. Jiang (WSU), Yaohua Li (Glasgow), and He Wang (SUSTech)

  • R&R at Journal of Financial Research
  • Presentations: 17th CAFM; 35th AsianFA Annual Conference; SUSTech Seminar.

📝 The Unintended Consequence of Employment Nondiscrimination Acts: Evidence from Earnings Management
with Wenbin Hu (UQ), George J. Jiang (WSU), and He Wang (SUSTech)

  • Media Coverage: The FinReg Blog of the Duke Financial Economics Center at Duke University (Invited)

📝 Academia to Action: Managerial Academic Experience and Corporate ESG Performance
with George J. Jiang (WSU), Nan Shi (Galaxy Securities), Zizhe Tang (SUSTech), and He Wang (SUSTech)

  • Presentations: 6th ICAFEM; 33nd EFMA Conference.

📝 Director Reelection Pressure and Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Majority Voting Legislation
with Tao (Jonas) Chen (NTU Singapore) and Wenbin Hu (UQ)

📝 Environmental Pollution and Corporate Credit Spreads
with Yancheng Qiu (USYD)

Publications

📄 “Internet and private insurance participation”, with Zhifeng Liu and Tingting Zhang, 2022, International Journal of Finance & Economics.

📄 “Only words matter? The effects of cognitive abilities on commercial insurance participation”, with Zhifeng Liu, Kaixin Li, and Tingting Zhang, 2022, North American Journal of Economics and Finance.

📄 “Household debt and happiness: evidence from the China Household Finance Survey”, with Zhifeng Liu, Tingting Zhang, and Xueyi Zhong, 2020, Applied Economics Letters.

📄 “The neighborhood effects of provincial-level stock market participation in China”, with Xiong Kuang, Zhifeng Liu, and Tingting Zhang, 2018, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.