Students

Mengchuan Fu, Sixth-Year

Primary Research Area: Finance

Secondary Research Areas: Corporate Finance, Fin-Tech, Big data

Publications:

  • Colak, G., M. Fu, and I. Hasan (2022). On Modeling IPO Failure Risk. Economic Modelling, 109, 105790.
  • Afzali, M., G. Ҫolak, and M. Fu (2021). Economic uncertainty and corruption: Evidence from public and private firms. Journal of Financial Stability, 57, 100936.
  • Colak, G., M. Fu, and I. Hasan (2020). Why are some Chinese firms failing in the US capital markets? A machine learning approach. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 61, 101331.
  • M. Fu, and D. Zhou (Forthcoming). Secret Recipe of IPO survival: ESG disclosure and performance”. Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments.

Working Papers:

  • IPO Underpricing: Evidence from Machine Learning Analyses
  • The Effect of Online Employee Satisfaction Reviews on the Firm’s Cost of Debt
  • Determinants of Doing Good: CSR Champions
  • Does the market price climate risk? Evidence from IPOs
  • M&A optimality: Marriage facilitated by machine learning
  • Firms’ supply chain and pricing: Evidence from IPOs
  • What attracts private equities: Evidence from machine learning
  • Dark side of the pecking order: an AI approach

 

Alona Bilokha, Fifth-Year

Primary Research Area: Finance

Secondary Research Areas: Corporate Governance, Strategic Management, Business Analytics, Law and Economics

Working Papers:

  • Recipes for Female Success: Becoming a CEO
  • Determinants of Doing Good: CSR Champions
  • The Cost (and Unbenefit) of Conscious Capitalism
  • Universal Demand Laws and Stakeholders: Evidence from the Auditor's Perspective
  • Shareholder Litigation Rights and Firm Productivity

 

Mingying Cheng, Fifth-Year

Primary Research Area: Management

Secondary Research Areas: Strategic Management, Capital Markets, ESG

Publications:

  • Cheng, Mingying, and Joseph A. Micale. 2022. "ESG Risks and the Value Relevance of Current and Historical Earnings." Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments.

Working papers:

  • Cost of Conscious Capitalism
  • Strategic Environmental Disclosure and Financial Materiality: Evidence from U.S. Firms on Nasdaq and the NYSE
  • Recipes for Female Success: Becoming a CEO
  • Determinants of Doing Good: CSR Champions
  • Women Leadership and Corporate Policies: Evidence from the California Senate Bill No. 826
  • Which Environmental, Social, or Governance (ESG) Activities are More Informative to Stock Prices?

 

William Francis, Fourth-Year

Primary Research Area: Financial Technology

Secondary Research Area: Financial Intermediaries, Risk Management