Tenured Associate Professor
Linlin Ma
Ph.D. in Finance, Georgia State University
Research Interests:Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds, Behavioral Finance
0755-2603 2024
linlin.ma@phbs.pku.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 702, PHBS Building
Biography

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.

Peking University HSBC Business School                                Fall 2018 − Present

Courses: Research Methodology (MA)

               Investments II (MA)

               Behavioral Finance (MBA)

               Principle of Finance (Undergraduate)

 

Northeastern University                                             Fall 2013 – Spring 2018

Course: Financial Management (Undergraduate)

 

Georgia State University                                             Fall 2010 – Spring 2013     

Courses: Principles of Corporate Finance (Undergraduate)

               Financial Analysis and Introduction to Loan Structuring (Undergraduate)