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

Selected Working Papers

How Does VC Activism Backfire in Startup Experimentation? with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu [SSRN]

• Featured in ProMarket

Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Consumer Spending and Product Sales, with Meng Gao [SSRN]

GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers, with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang [SSRN]

• Featured in Hutchins Roundup

Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson [SSRN]

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance

From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech, with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian [SSRN][NBER WP 33297]

What is the Role of the Options Market? Evidence from Newly Public Companies, with  Thomas Chemmanur and Chayawat Ornthanalai [SSRN]

Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending, with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen [SSRN]

• Featured in Bank Policy Institute Newsletter

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  [SSRN] 

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Law and Economics