Publication

How can Innovation Screening be Improved? A Machine Learning Analysis with Economic Consequences for Firm Performance (solo-authored) [SSRN]

• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2025

• The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021; The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021

Papers under Revision

Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? [SSRN]

• with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance

• The House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing: Bankruptcy Law: Overview and Legislative Reforms

Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending [SSRN]

• with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen

• Reject & Resubmit, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

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 (2nd round), Journal of Law and Economics

Selected Working Papers

From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech [SSRN] [NBER WP 33297]

• with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian

How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation? [SSRN]

• with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu

• Media Coverage: ProMarket

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

• Media Coverage: Hutchins Roundup

What is the Role of the Options Market? Evidence from Newly Public Companies [SSRN]

• with Thomas Chemmanur and Chayawat Ornthanalai

Teaching

Introductions to Financial Models (FinTech): Fall 2022 - Fall 2024 

• Last course evaluation: 5.0/5.0

Investments & Security Analysis (BA): Fall 2021, Spring 2022

• Last course evaluation: 5.0/5.0

Financial Modeling (MBA): Fall 2021

• Last course evaluation: 5.0/5.0