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Faculty Profile

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Education

2012Ph.D. (Finance), London Business School                                                                                             
2009 M.Res. (Finance), London Business School                                                                              
2006CEMS Master (International Management), University of Cologne and HEC Paris
2006Dipl.-Kfm. (Business Administration), University of Cologne

Current Position(s) Held

2021 - Now Associate Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2017 - 2021Assistant Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Michael J. Brennan Award for the Best Paper Published in 2021 in the Review of Financial Studies, 2022
  • Best Paper Award, Paris December Finance Meeting, 2017
  • Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award, Paris December Finance Meeting, 2013
  • SAC Capital Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, Western Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2012
  • Doctoral Tutorial Best Paper Award, European Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2011
  • Top Student Award, University of Cologne, 2006

Research Interests

  • Financial Contracting
  • Corporate Disclosure
  • Corporate Investment
  • Behavioural Finance

Journal Articles (Refereed)

  1. The Downstream Impact of Upstream Tariffs: Evidence from Investment Decisions in Supply Chains, 2024, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 59, No. 6, 2695-2732 (with Thorsten Martin)
  2. Do Firms Respond to Peer Disclosures? Evidence from Disclosures of Clinical Trial Results, 2023, The Accounting Review, Vol. 98, No. 3, 71-108 (with Vedran Capkun, Yun Lou, and Yin Wang)
  3. CAPM-Based Company (Mis)valuations, 2021, Review of Financial Studies 34, 1-66 (with Olivier Dessaint, Jacques Olivier, and David Thesmar)
  4. Accounting Quality and Debt Concentration, 2021, The Accounting Review 96, 377-400 (with Ningzhong Li, Yun Lou, and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman)
  5. Debt Heterogeneity and Covenants, 2020, Management Science 66, 70-92 (with Yun Lou)
  6. Marking to Market and Inefficient Investment Decisions, 2018, Management Science 64, 3756-3771 (with Paolo Volpin)
  7. CEO Optimism and Incentive Compensation, 2014, Journal of Financial Economics 114, 366-404
  8. The Unintended Effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2011, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 167, 149-164 (with Vidhi Chhaochharia and Vikrant Vig)
  9. A New Approach to the Measurement of Polarization for Grouped Data, 2007, AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis 91, 181-196 (with Eckart Bomsdorf)