My research centers on financial distress and corporate bankruptcy, with additional work in ESG finance and executive compensation. Going forward, I plan to integrate large language models more extensively into empirical analysis and measurement.
Working Papers
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Human Capital Metrics and CEO Pay (with Diane Burton, Lingling Wang, and Karen Wruck).
Ohio Fisher College of Business Working Paper; Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper.​
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Inheriting from Bankrupt Firms? Evidence on Long-term Performance of Local Firms (sole-authored). Revise & Resubmit, British Accounting Review.​
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Do SEC Enforcement Actions Deter Real Earnings Manipulations of Industry Peers (sole-authored)? Revise & Resubmit, Accounting and Finance.​
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CEO Disposition Effect and the Chapter 11 Filing Decisions (with Edward Lawrence). Under Review.​
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Sentiment Distortions and Financial Distress: Evidence from Companies’ 8-K Filings with LLM-Based Analysis (with Tarun Chordia, Qiang Kang, and Suchismita Mishra).​
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Do Bankruptcy Filings of Industry Rivals Mitigate Shareholder–Manager Conflict? Evidence on Earnings Management and Acquisitions (with Shiyi Chen and Rui Sun).​
Work in Progress
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COVID-19, Work from Home, and Racial Attitudes (with Shiyi Chen). ​​
Editorial
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2025 - Present: Associate Editor, Journal of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Academic Conferences
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2025: FMA Annual Conference (scheduled to present)
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2025: SFA Annual Conference (scheduled to present)
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2025: MRS International Risk Conference
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2025: RCEA International Conference
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2025: American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting
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2024: The Conference Board Annual Meeting — Executive Compensation in Context
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2024: Cornell ICS Symposium: Paying for Human Capital Performance?
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2024: International Behavioral Finance Conference
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2024: Southwestern Finance Association Annual Conference (also chaired)
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2024: Eastern Finance Association Annual Conference (also chaired)
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2024: Florida International University Conference
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2023: British Accounting Review Annual Conference
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2023: Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting
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2023: Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics
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2023: The Business and Applied Sciences Academy of North America
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2022: Financial Management Association Annual Meeting
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2022: World Finance & Banking Symposium
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2021: American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Conference