Welcome! I am a Lecturer in Finance at Cardiff University.
I obtained my PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, and worked as an Assistant Professor in Finance at University College Dublin (UCD) from 2022 to 2024.
Research
Publications
Private Markets
Institutional Ownership and Investment of private firms, with Seth Armitage and Ronan Gallagher. British Accounting Review, 2025
Culture, beliefs and finance
Inherited Trust and Informal Finance, with Jiafu An , Mengfei Jiang, and Jiandong Chen. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2023.
Professional Norms and Risk-taking of Bank Employees: Do Expectations of Peers' Risk Preferences Matter?, with Jiafu An and Mengfei Jiang. Journal of Financial Stability, 2021.
International Spillovers of Corporate Scandal: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein Event, with Jiafu An. European Journal of Finance, 2021.
Pension
The Elusive Relation Between Pension Discount Rates and Deficits, with Seth Armitage and Ronan Gallagher. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2022.
Selected working papers
Do Managers Withhold Bad News? Evidence from Terror Attacks, with Jiafu An, Jiandong Chen, Shiqi Guo, Zaheer Khan, and Lai Wei
Presentations: Edinburgh World Class Workshop, AsianFA Macau 2024, AAA 2024
Private Equity Buyouts and Trade Credit Provision
Teaching
Cardiff
Corporate Financial Management
UCD
Foundations of Finance (UG) 2022/23, 2023/24
Empirical Corporate Finance (PG) 2022/23
Financial Analysis (PG) 2023/24
Corporate Finance (PG, Management) 2023/24
Presentations
2024: AsianFA (Macau)*, AAA (DC)
2023: Irish Academy of Finance (IAF) Annual Conference, Edinburgh WorldClass Workshop
2022: AEA Poster (Online), FMA Europe (Lyon), Edinburgh WorldClass Workshop
2021: FMA Europe (Online), EAA (Online), Queen's University Belfast*, University of Reading*
2022: AAA (Online)
2019: BAFA (Birmingham)