Hi. I am a PhD Candidate in Finance at Washington University in St. Louis. I obtained a BBA in Finance and a BS in Applied Mathematics in 2018 from Peking University. I studied at The Ohio State University as an exchange student in 2017. You are welcome to check my CV.

Research Interests

Corporate Governance, Financial Intermediation and FinTech, Competition and Antitrust

Job Market Paper

  1. When the Thin Bench Gets Thinner: The Effects of Investment Bank Consolidation on Municipal Finance (Solo-Authored) SSRN, Slides, ProMarket
    • Scheduled for AEA/AFA 2025 Poster Sessions, MFA 2025, EFA 2025 (Philadelphia), Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop, and Municipal Finance Conference 2024

Working Papers

  1. The Welfare Benefits of Pay-As-You-Go Financing (with Paul Gertler, Brett Green, & David Sraer) SSRN, Slides
  2. Board Connections, Firm Profitability, and Product Market Actions (with Radha Gopalan & Alminas Žaldokas) SSRN, Slides, CLS Blue Sky Blog