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RESEARCH INTERESTS

     Corporate finance, Financial institutions, Mergers and acquisitions, Securitization

EDUCATION

    Ph.D. in Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC,  2009 (expected)

    M.S. in Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China,  2004

    B.A. in Finance,  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2001

WORKING PAPERS

Did Structured Credit Fuel the LBO Boom?, with Anil Shivdasani, 2009.
       - Accepted to be presented at the AFA meeting 2010 (Atlanta).

Do Firms Use Commercial Paper to Enhance Financial Flexibility?, with Matthias Kahl and Anil Shivdasani, 2008.
        - Presented at the AFA meeting 2009 (San Francisco), FIRS 2009 (Prague).

AWARDS

Peggy Lee-Sunil Wahal Award (best up-and-coming Ph.D. student), Kenan-Flagler Business School, 2008

TEACHING

Instructor to Corporate Finance BUSI 408 (Undergraduate), Summer 2007, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant,Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Matthias Kahl, 2005 – 2008; Anil Shivdasani 2006 –2009

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Xiaotie Deng, 07/2002 – 01/2003, 09/2003 – 08/2004

PRESENTATIONS

American Finance Association Annual Meeting, January 2010 (scheduled).

Financial Intermediation Research Society Forth Annual Conference, May 2009, (by coauthor).

American Finance Association Annual Meeting, January 2009 (by coauthor).

Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, October 2008 (discussant).

China International Conference in Finance, July 2004.