I am a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). I obtained my PhD in Finance from The Ohio State University.
Curriculum vitae: view CV (including contact)
Under review
ESG inside view paper R&R at Management Science
DEI flexibility paper R&R at Journal of Financial Economics
News
2026 AFA: I am coming back to North America for two paper presentations:
I will present our paper "Public Opinion and Shareholder Actions" at European Finance Association (EFA ) Meeting in Paris August 2025.
I am among the ten invited discussants for the 2025 UNSW Corporate Finance Workshop.
I am joining Monash Business School as a faculty member. Thank you University of Alberta for all the support during my two years of being an Assistant Professor there.
I will present our paper "Public Sentiment Decomposition and Shareholder Actions" at the 18th Annual ECGI Corporate Governance Academic Conference at Drexel University.
Our public opinion paper is getting presented in many seminars: University of Florida, University of Oklahoma, FEB-RN virtual seminar with FMA, Temple University.
Stop Woke paper is scheduled at Spring 2025 Labor and Finance Group Conference (Georgetown University)
Public Sentiment Decomposition and Shareholder Actions will be presented at 2025 UC Davis-FMA Napa Finance Conference .
D&I Flexibility paper - Finalist at 2025 John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, by University of Delaware Weinberg and ECGI Corporate Governance Symposium.
New paper "Public Sentiment Decomposition and Shareholder Actions" posted, with Reena Aggarwal, Isil Erel, and Laura Starks
My D&I Flexibility paper (also solo): R&R at Journal of Financial Economics.
My job market paper on ESG: now R&R at Management Science
ESG paper won Best Paper Award
2024 International Corporate Governance Society - at Arizona State U.
New York Magazine covered my DEI valuation paper
I'll be presenting my DEI flexibility paper at 2025 AEA (ASSA) - San Francisco
I'll be presenting my DEI valuation paper at 2024 DESI (FMA) - Texas
New paper: "Do Investors Value DEI?..."
see Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog for a summary.
see also Oxford Business Law Blog by the University of Oxford
see also ProMarket Blog by the University of Chicago Booth School
New paper: Social Premiums, available online.
So glad to present at University of Washington's Fostering Inclusion Workshop: Bringing journal editors and academics together on DEI scholarship.
My other solo paper is scheduled for presentation at the 2024 Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) Annual Conference.
My solo paper is scheduled for presentation at the 2024 University of Connecticut Finance Conference.
My research will be presented at the 2024 ASSA meeting (San Antonio)
I'm presenting at the Empirical Management Conference, at Stanford University.
Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog featured my latest research.
My paper is a finalist for the 2023 Crowell Memorial Prize by PanAgora Asset Management.
My paper is selected for the Best of DESI papers (Diversity Emerging Scholars Initiative).
I have a new working paper on DEI and Firm Flexibility on SSRN
I am presenting my research at the 2023 NFA conference in Toronto. Stop by and say hi!
I am presenting my research at the 2023 SoFiE Financial Econometrics Summer School in NYU Shanghai. See you soon!
I am discussing a paper at the FIRS conference. See you in Vancouver.
I am thrilled to accept a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Alberta (Canada).
EGCI Corporate Governance Symposium selected my paper.
BlackRock Applied Research Award chose me as 1 in 5 finalists.
Chicago Booth Rising Scholars Conference accepted my new solo-authored paper on diversity and inclusion.
I received the René M. Stulz Scholar Development Award.
GRASFI, a sustainable finance conference, invited my paper.
Finance PhD Final Countdown selected my paper.
Best Paper Award at the ARCS conference was given to me.
USC Marshall Finance PhD Conference accepted my paper.
CICF conference accepted my paper.
Duke University's Law School Blog featured my paper.
ESGInvesting.co.uk invited me to give a talk about my research.
The Accounting Review, a top 3 accounting journal, published my paper