PhD Student in Finance
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
I am a second-year PhD student in Finance at the University of Utah. My research interests are in behavioral finance, corporate governance, asset pricing , political economy.
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Mortality Salience as an Observable State Variable in Asset Pricing Solo-authored Studies whether mortality salience helps explain variation in expected returns and the stochastic discount factor.
Governance Responses to Election-Driven Uncertainty: Evidence from U.S. Gubernatorial Elections
Solo-authored
Examines whether firms retime board and officer changes around close gubernatorial elections and regime changes using 8-K governance disclosures.
Market Reactions to Short Seller Rebuttals
with Fangzhou Liu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Studies how markets respond when activist short sellers publish follow-up rebuttals after firm denials, and how those reactions differ from responses to original short reports.
Western Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2025
Utah Finance Conference, 2025 and 2026
Before joining the University of Utah, I completed a Master of Finance (Research Track) at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and a B.A. (Hons.) at Jawaharlal Nehru University.