Working Papers

• “Are Firms Sacrificing Flexibility for Diversity and Inclusion?”” Solo-authored paper 

  • Best of DESI (Diversity Emerging Scholars Initiative).

  • Presented at the Rising Scholars Conference at University of  Chicago Booth School of Business.

  • Scheduled at the 2024 University of Connecticut Finance Conference.

  • Media: Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog 

  • Data: D&I ratings based on employees' perception

• “Do Employees Have Useful Information About Firms’ ESG Practices?” Solo-authored paper

  • PanAgora Asset Management's Crowell Memorial Prize Finalist.

  • BlackRock Applied Research Award Finalist.

  • Best Paper Award at the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) Annual Conference.

  • Presentations at the 2021 UT-Austin PhD Student Symposium, the 2022 USC Marshall Finance PhD Conference, the 2022 ARCS Conference, and the 2022 China International Conference in Finance (CICF);  the 2022 GRASFI conference, the 2022 Finance PhD Final Countdown, BlackRock, and the 2023 ECGI Corporate Governance Symposium, and 2023 Empirical Management Conference at Stanford University.

  • Scheduled at the 2024 ABFER Annual Conference.

  • Seminars: Cornell University, Georgia State, Ohio State, Michigan State, University of Kentucky, University of Warwick, University of Alberta, Auburn University, University of Illinois Chicago, Erasmus University.

  • Media: Duke Law School's FinReg Blog, ESG Investing Research, Nasdaq.com, ...

  • Data: ESG word lists

  • Data: ESG ratings based on employees' inside view

Publications

• "Measuring Multidimensional Investment Opportunity Sets with 10-K Text" (with Sudipta Basu and Xinjie Ma)

  • The Accounting Review 2022

  • Presented at the 2019 AAA Annual Meeting, 2019 Conference on the Convergence of Financial and Managerial Accounting Research, 2019 Hawaii Accounting Research Conference, 2018 SEC Doctoral Student Symposium, 2018 AAA Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting, 2018 Eastern Finance Association Meeting, 2018 AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting (FARS) Mid-year Meeting, and 2017 Academy of Business Research International Conference.

• “Stock Liquidity And Ownership Structure During And After The 2008 Global Financial Crisis:  Empirical  Evidence  From  An  Emerging  Market” (with  Ly Tran  and  Thao  Hoang) 

  • Emerging Markets Review 2018