Research Interests: 🙀stock market anomalies, 😺mutual funds, 😼hedge funds, 😾information acquisition and 😻market real impact
Co-searching for Alpha (with Boone Bowles and Xiaan Zhou)
Presentation: NC State, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, 2024 FMA (Idea Session), 20th FRA (Idea Panel), Finance and Accounting 2025 Annual Research Symposium, 2025 MRS , SFA , FMA
Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Implied Belief Extrapolation (Contrarianism): Evidence from Mutual Fund Holdings (with Shimeng Wang) (new draft coming soon)
Presentation: Purdue, SWFA; FMA
Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Salience Theory and Mutual Fund Flows (with Wenting Dai)
Presentation: 2024 Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference, The 3rd Xiangjiang River Forum, SFA , FMA
Mispricing and Firm Investment (with Yong Chen)
Presentation: Texas A&M University, Wayne State University, North Carolina State University, Nankai University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Hainan University, Case Western Reserve University, 2023 CICF, 2023 CFRI & CIRF Joint Conference, 2023 FMA, 2024 Inaugural Eagle Finance Conference at Boston College, 2025 FIRS, MFA (scheduled)
Anomalies and the Decision to Go Public (with Claire Li and Wensong Zhong)
Presentation: NC State
Female-Led Funds and Female-Led Firms: Allocation, Attention, and Affinity (with Boone Bowles and Shimeng Wang)
Environmental Pollution and Dividend Policy: Evidence from Chemical Spills (with George Tian)
In the Same Boat? Interest Alignment and Hedge Fund Performance (with Yong Chen)
Value Added by Hedge Funds (with Yong Chen, Wenting Dai)
Pension Investment in Hedge Funds: Selection and Allocation Decisions (with Jesse Ellis, Tianyi Qu, Shane Underwood)
Mutual Fund Flow and Information Acquisition (with Boone Bowles)