Xiang Zheng

Assistant Professor

Finance

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Xiang Zheng is an assistant professor in the Finance Department. He earned his Ph.D. in finance from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in 2021. His research interests include fintech, corporate finance, and entrepreneurial finance.

• The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021; The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021

Selected Working Papers

Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? (with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson)

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance

How Does Private Firm Patenting Affect Anti-Takeover Provisions in Corporate Charters? Evidence from Initial Public Offerings, (with Thomas Chemmanur, Manish Gupta, and Karen Simonyan)

• Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Law and Economics

How Does VC Activism Backfire in Startup Experimentation? (with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu)

Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Consumer Spending and Product Sales, (with Meng Gao)

GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers, (with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang)

From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech, (with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian)

What is the Role of the Options Market? Evidence from Newly Public Companies,  (with  Thomas Chemmanur and Chayawat Ornthanalai)

Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending, (with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen)