Xiang Zheng

Assistant Professor

Finance

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 banking. His research has been published in leading finance and economics journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Law and Economics.

1. GSE Restrictions, Credit Supply, and Rental Market Spillovers, with Natee Amornsiripanitch, Philip Strahan, and Song Zhang, Management Science, accepted
2. Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? with Edith Hotchkiss and Benjamin Iverson, Journal of Finance, 2026, 81(5), pp.2493-2542. Lead Article.
3. 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, Journal of Law and Economics, 2026, 69(3), pp.517-541.
4. How can Innovation Screening be Improved? A Machine Learning Analysis with Economic Consequences for Firm Performance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2025, 60(8), pp.3722 – 3752.
   • The FMA Best Paper Award in FinTech, 2021; The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2021

Selected Working Papers

1. From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech, with Manju Puri and Yiming Qian
   • Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics
2. What is the Role of the Options Market? Evidence from Newly Public Companies, with  Thomas Chemmanur and Chayawat Ornthanalai
   • Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
3. Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending, with Sijie Wang and Siyi Shen
   • Revise & Resubmit, Management Science
4. How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation? with Xuelin Li, Sijie Wang, and Jiajie Xu
5. Woke or Broke? The Impact of Corporate Activism on Product Sales, with Meng Gao
6. The Economic Impact of Insolvency Reforms Around the World, with James Albertus, Edith Hotchkiss, and Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez