Xiang (Shawn) Zheng
Assistant Professor of Finance
School of Business, University of Connecticut
Email: xiang.zheng 'at' uconn.edu
Curriculum Vitae Google Scholar SSRN
Research Interest: FinTech/Innovation, Corporate Finance, Banking
*My first name is pronounced similarly to Shawn.
Publication
How can Innovation Screening be Improved? A Machine Learning Analysis with Economic Consequences for Firm Performance (solo-authored) [SSRN]
Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021; The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021
Selected Working Papers
How Does VC Activism Backfire in Startup Experimentation? [SSRN]
with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu
Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Consumer Spending and Product Sales [SSRN]
with Meng Gao
GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers [SSRN]
with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang
Featured in Hutchins Roundup
Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? [SSRN]
with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance
From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech [SSRN][NBER WP 33297]
with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian
What is the Role of the Options Market? Evidence from Newly Public Companies [SSRN]
with Thomas Chemmanur and Chayawat Ornthanalai
Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending [SSRN]
with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen
Featured in Bank Policy Institute Newsletter
How Does Private Firm Patenting Affect Anti-Takeover Provisions in Corporate Charters? Evidence from Initial Public Offerings [SSRN]
with Thomas Chemmanur, Manish Gupta, and Karen Simonyan
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Law and Economics