Research & Data
Data & Code
- (code) Discretionary accruals
- (docs) Download M&A data from SDC
- (code & data) Historical firm HQ location 1969-2022
- (code) Merton distance-to-default (default probability)
- (code) Organization capital
- (code) Specification curve analysis - listed in Harvard Business School Research Computing Services blog. For the Stata command, see my
specurve
. - (code) Textual analysis on 8K filings - e.g., Nini, Smith and Sufi (2009). For a full Python CLI application, see my
edgar-analyzer
. - (code) Kyle's Lambda
- (code) Variance ratio test - Lo and MacKinlay (1988)
Selected Publications
Organization Capital and Executive Performance Incentives, Journal of Banking & Finance, 2021, with Henry Leung (University of Sydney) and Buhui Qiu (University of Sydney).
The 2020 FMA Annual Meeting (Virtual), October 2020. Discussant: Blake Loriot (Monash University).
The 3rd Global PhD Colloquium, April 2019, Fordham University, New York -- Outstanding PhD Student Paper Award. Discussant: Thomas Noe (University of Oxford).
The 32nd Annual PhD Conference in Economics and Business, Australian National University, October 2019, Canberra, Australia. Discussant: Xianming Zhou (Australian National University).
Working Papers
- "Lone (Loan) Wolf Pack Risk", with Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University; University of Sydney), Buhui Qiu (University of Sydney) and Eliza Wu (University of Sydney).
The 2023 Western Finance Association (WFA) Annual Meeting, June 2023, San Francisco.
The 2022 FIRN Banking and Financial Stability Meeting, Australian National University, September 2022, Canberra, Australia. Discussant: Eden Zhang (Monash University).
SUERF Policy Brief No. 586, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 4/2023
Curtin University, Massey University, National Central University, University of Essex, University of Sydney
- "Anomalous Lending and Bank Risk", with Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University; University of Sydney), Buhui Qiu (University of Sydney), Eliza Wu (University of Sydney) and Yan Yu (University of Cincinnati).
The 2023 Machine Learning Methods for Business Workshop, University of Sydney, May 2023, Sydney, Australia.
The 2022 Business Financing and Banking Research Group Annual Workshop, University of Sydney, November 2022, Sydney, Australia. Discussant: Linda Allen (Baruch College).
Deakin University, University of Queensland, University of Sydney
- "Borrower Technology Similarity and Bank Loan Contracting", with Yunying Huang (University of Sydney), Steven Ongena (University of Zurich; Swiss Finance Institute; KU Leuven; NTNU Business School; CEPR) and Eliza Wu (University of Sydney).
The 2023 European Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting (Poster)
The 35th Australiasian Finance and Banking Conference, December 2022, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Discussant: Christoph Schneider (University of Münster).
- "Corporate Real Estate Holdings and M&As", with Thanh Son Luong (University of Sydney) and Buhui Qiu (University of Sydney).
The 2022 FMA Annual Meeting, October 2022, Atlanta, GA. Discussant: Danni Tu (Southern Illinois University).
The 2022 FIRN Annual Conference, November 2022, Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia. Discussant: Thomas To (University of Sydney).
- "Consumer Behaviour and Credit Supply: Evidence from an Australian FinTech Lender", with Henry Leung (University of Sydney), Linhui Liu (University of Syndey) and Buhui Qiu (University of Sydney).
R&R at Finance Research Letters.
- "Catering to Environmental Premium in Green Venture Financing", with Henry Leung (University of Sydney), Tse-Chun Lin (University of Hong Kong) and Tracy Thi Vu (University of Sydney).
Work in Progress
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"Liquidity and Price Impact at the 52 Week High", with Joshua Della Vedova (University of San Diego), Andrew Grant (University of Sydney) and Joakim Westerholm (University of Sydney).
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"Differentiated Lending and Bank Risks: Evidence from Global Syndicated Loans", with Hanyun Ding (University of Sydney), Buhui Qiu (University of Sydney) and Eliza Wu (University of Sydney).
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"Climate Exposure from Lending Portflio and Bank Risk", with Meitong He (University of Sydney), Buhui Qiu (University of Sydney) and Eliza Wu (University of Sydney).
Other Publications
Closer than ever: Growing business-level connections between Australia and Europe, European Management Journal, 2023, with Boris Choy, Teresa Davis, Hanyun Ding, Massimo Garbuio, Catherine Hardy, Henry Leung, Thanh Son Luong, Greg Patmore, Sandra Peter, Buhui Qiu, Kai Riemer, John Shields, Catherine Sutton-Brady, Carlos Vazquez-Hernandez, and Eliza Wu, all from University of Sydney.
Student Supervision
- Meitong He, Honours student, 2023 (co-supervised by Buhui Qiu).
Reading List
A curated reading list of mine.