Research Papers

Lazy Prices, 2020 (with Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy)

-  Journal of Finance

- First Prize, 2016 CQA Finance Competition, Q-Group Jack Treynor Prize, 2016 Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Competition, Best Paper Award in Investments: 2019 Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines.

- 2017 AFA (Chicago), 2016 Finance Cavalcade (Toronto), 9th Conference of The Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality (LSE), 6th Helsinki Finance Summit on Investor Behavior Conference (Helsinki), 2016 Red Rock Finance Conference (Springdale, Utah), 2016 Research in Behavioral Finance Conference (Amsterdam), 27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (Toronto), 2019 Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines.

The Effect of Government Spending on Corporate Investment: Evidence from Census Shocks, 2020 (with Tae Kim)

- Review of Finance 

- 2013 SFS Finance Cavalcade, 2013 European Finance Association

The Effect ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting, 2022 (with Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun)

- R&R Journal of Finance

- Fordham University Gabelli School of Business – PVH Corp. Global Thought Leadership Grant (2% selection rate, $50,000)

- Winners of the John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award Competition ($10,000).

– AFA 2021, University of Delaware Weinberg Center/ECGI Corporate Governance Symposium, ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference, Sustainable Finance Forum, 2021, United Nations Geneva Summit on Sustainable Finance, 2021, Stanford University ESG Conference, 2021 University of Texas at Dallas Finance Conference, 2021 Brazilian Finance Society Conference Meeting, Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, NBER New Developments in Long-Term Asset Management, NBER-SAIF Climate Finance and the Sustainable Energy Transition

It’s Time to Change How ESG Is Measured, 2024, 2022 (with Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun)

- Harvard Business Review

- Value Creation at FAU COB and Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) Symposium, 2022

Moving Targets, 2024 (with Lauren Cohen)

– 2025 AFA, 2024 FMA Annual Meeting, 2024 NBER Big Data and High-Performance Computing for Financial Economics, 2024 Jacobs Levy Center’s Frontiers in Quantitative Finance Conference, 2024 Lancaster Financial Fraud, Misconduct, and Market Manipulation Conference, 2024 Helsinki Finance Submit, 2024 Global Finance Conference, 2022 Behavioral Insights from Text Conference, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from the Droughts of the 1930s, 2022 (with Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy)

- 2016 WFA (Park City, Utah), 2016 NBER SI Urban Economics

Does Investor Attention Stop at the Water’s Edge? The Predictability of Multinational Firms’ Returns, 2017

- 2013 AFA Annual Meeting, 2012 FMA Annual Meeting, 2011 24th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference

- Semi-finalist for the best paper award in Investments, 2012 FMA Annual Meeting

It Is Easy to be Brave From a Safe Distance: Proximity to the SEC and Insider Trading, 2017 (with Trung T. H. Nguyen)

- 2015 NFA Annual Meeting

The Dynamics of Hedge Fund Fees, 2011 (with Prachi Deuskar, Jay Z. Wang, Y. Wu)

- 2012 FIRS Conference, 2011 CICF Conference, 2010 China Finance Review Conference

- Best Paper Award, China Finance Review Conference 2010

The Home(-sickness) Bias of International Holdings, 2012

– 2013 Sixth Conference on Professional Asset Management, Rotterdam School of Management

Work in Progress

Inefficient University Investment (Jose Liberty)

Sticky Housing Supply, (Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun)

Bias and Discrimination in the Financial Markets, (with Quoc-Anh Do, Kieu-Trang Nguyen)

The Uncle Effect (with Quoc-Anh Do and Kieu-Trang Nguyen)

Save the Worst for Last (with Lauren Cohen and Trung Nguyen)

Distrust in Finance and Saving Behavior of African-Americans (with Trung T. H. Nguyen)

Resource Constraints and Enforcement of Financial Crimes (with Trung T. H. Nguyen)