Published and Accepted Papers

1. GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers (with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang)

• Management Science, accepted

2. Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? (with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson)

   • Journal of Finance, 2026, 81(5), pp.2493-2542. Lead Article.

• Featured in Carroll School News, the House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing

3. How Does Private Firm Patenting Affect Anti-Takeover Provisions in Corporate Charters? Evidence from Initial Public Offerings (with Thomas Chemmanur, Manish Gupta, and Karen Simonyan)

   • Journal of Law and Economics, 2026, 69(3), pp.517-541.

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

   • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2025, 60(8), pp.3722-3752.

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

Selected Working Papers

1. From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech (with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian)

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics 

• Featured in NBER Reporter

2. Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending (with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen)

   • Revise & Resubmit, Management Science

3. What is the Role of the Options Market? Evidence from Newly Public Companies (with Thomas Chemmanur and Chayawat Ornthanalai)

   • Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

4. How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation? (with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu)

• Featured in ProMarket

5. The Economic Impact of Insolvency Reforms Around the World (with James Albertus, Edith Hotchkiss, and Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez)

6. Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Product Sales (with Meng Gao)