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Assistant Professor of Finance
School of Business, University of Connecticut
Email: xiang.zheng 'at' uconn.edu
Curriculum Vitae (updated August 2026)
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Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Fintech, Banking, Private Markets
*My first name is pronounced similarly to Shawn.
Published and Accepted Papers
Published and Accepted Papers
The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021; The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021
Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson
Journal of Finance, 2026
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
Selected Working Papers
Selected Working Papers
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
GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers, with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang
Revise & Resubmit, Management Science
Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending, with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen
Revise & Resubmit, Management Science
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
How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation? with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu
Featured in ProMarket
The Economic Impact of Insolvency Reforms Around the World, with James Albertus, Edith Hotchkiss, and Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez
Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Product Sales, with Meng Gao
Visual Cues and Valuation: Evidence from the Housing Market, with Puja Bhattacharya, Sherry Li, Yu Wang, and Cedric Wu
AEA RCT Registry: AEARCTR-0016398
Featured in National Affairs, The Unassuming Economist
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