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Ph.D. (Finance), University of Rochester, 2007

M.A. (Applied Economics), University of Rochester, 2004

M.Sc. (Finance), National University of Singapore, 2001

B.A. (Economics), Peking University, China, 1997

Academic Position Held

Current Appointment:

Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University (2006- Present)

Editorial Activities

Referee for Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

Program committee for FMA Meeting in Orlando Florida (2007), Singapore International Conference on Finance (2009)

Honors & Awards

Dean's Teaching Honor List in AY 2007-08, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Best Paper Award, the 16 th conference on the theories and practices of securities and financial markets (SFM), 2008

Best Paper Award, the 6 th NTU International Conference on Economics, Finance, and Accounting (IEFA), 2008

Best Paper Award, Eastern Finance Association, 2006

NYSE Student Travel Grant, Western Finance Association, 2006

Courses Taught in SMU

Corporate Finance

Research Areas

Empirical Corporate Finance

Empirical Asset Pricing

Current Projects

Strategic Financial Management: Evidence from Seasoned Equity Offerings, (with Michael Barclay and Clifford Smith)

Acquisitions Driven by Stock Overvaluation: Are They Good Deals? (with Leming Lin and Micah Officer)

Underwriter Collusion and IPO Pricing, (with Erica Li)

Overinvestment and the Operating Performance of SEO Firms

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

“Idiosyncratic Risk and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns”, Journal of Financial Economics , Forthcoming.

“Stock Exchange Governance and Market Quality” (with C. Krishnamurti and J. Sequeira), 2003, Journal of Banking and Finance Vol. 27, 1859-1878.