RESEARCH INTEREST
Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds, Behavioral Finance
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Finance, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
M.Sc. in Finance, Durham University, Durham, UK
B.A. in Finance, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
EMPLOYMENT
Peking University HSBC Business School,
Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure), August 2020 − Present
Assistant Professor of Finance, July 2018 − July 2020
Northeastern University, D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Assistant Professor of Finance, August 2013 − June 2018
PUBLICATION
“Managerial Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry” [Survey Paper] (with Yuehua Tang and Yuan Wang), 2024, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, forthcoming.
“Peer versus Pure Benchmarks in the Compensation of Mutual Fund Managers” (with Richard Evans, Juan-Pedro Gómez, and Yuehua Tang), 2024, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 59 (7), 3101–3138.
“Managerial Multitasking in the Mutual Fund Industry” (with Vikas Agarwal and Kevin Mullally), 2023, Financial Analysts Journal 79 (2), 65–75.
“How Does Past Experience Impact Hedge Fund Activism” (with Nicole Boyson and Robert Mooradian), 2022, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 57 (4), 1279–1312.
“Religious Values Motivating CSR: An Empirical Study from Corporate Leaders' Perspective” (with Bo Xu), 2022, Journal of Business Ethics 176 (3), 487–505.
“Portfolio Manager Ownership and Mutual Fund Risk Taking” (with Yuehua Tang), 2019, Management Science 65 (12): 5518-5534.
“What a Difference a (Birth) Month Makes: The Relative Age Effect and Fund Manager Performance” (with Jianqiu Bai, Kevin Mullally, and David Solomon), 2019, Journal of Financial Economics 132 (1), 200-221.
“Portfolio Manager Compensation in the U.S. Mutual Fund Industry” (with Yuehua Tang and Juan-Pedro Gómez), 2019, Journal of Finance 74 (2), 587-638.