Research Interests
Theoretical and
empirical corporate finance and entrepreneurial finance with primary focus on:
Venture Capital, Corporate Innovation, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Payout
Policy.
My Google Scholar Page is here
Publications
[8] Does Stock Liquidity Enhance or
Impede Firm Innovation? 2013, Journal of Finance (with Vivian
Fang and Sheri Tice), forthcoming [Download]
ุ Supplemental material: Internet Appendix for Fang, Tian,
and Tice (2013)
[7] Financial Development and Innovation: Cross-country Evidence, 2013, Journal of Financial Economics (with Po-Hsuan Hsu and Yan Xu), forthcoming [Download]
ุ Data file mapping the USPTO technology classes to SIC codes is available here
[6] Communicating Private Information to
the Equity Market Before a Dividend Cut: An Empirical Analysis, 2013, Journal
of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (with Thomas Chemmanur),
forthcoming [Download]
[5] The Dark Side of Analyst Coverage: The Case of Innovation, 2013, Journal of Financial Economics (with Jie He), forthcoming [Download]
ุ Supplemental material: Internet Appendix for He and
Tian (2013)
[4] Tolerance for Failure and Corporate Innovation, 2012, Review of Financial Studies (with Tracy Wang), forthcoming [Download]
[3] Preparing the Equity Market for Adverse Corporate Events: A Theoretical Analysis of Firms Cutting Dividends, 2012, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (with Thomas Chemmanur), Vol. 47 (5), 993-972 [Download]
[2] The Role of Venture Capital Syndication in Value Creation for Entrepreneurial Firms, 2012, Review of Finance, Vol. 16 (1), 245-283 [Download]
[1] The Causes and Consequences of Venture Capital Stage Financing, 2011, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 101 (1), 132-159 [Download]
ุ Winner of Jensen Prizes (2nd place) for best paper published in 2011 in the areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations in Journal of Financial Economics
Working Papers
[9] Does Banking Competition Affect Innovation?" with Jess Cornaggia, Yifei Mao, and Brian Wolfe [Download]
ุ Revise and resubmit (3rd round), Journal of Financial Economics
ุ On the 2013 WFA program
[10] Corporate Venture Capital, Value Creation, and Innovation, with Thomas Chemmanur and Elena Loutskina [Download]
ุ Revise and resubmit (2nd round), Review of Financial Studies
ุ On the 2013 WFA program
[11] Does Firms Geographic
Location Affect Its Takeover Exposure? with Ye Cai [Download]
ุ Revise and resubmit (2nd round), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
[12] Disciplining Delegated
Monitors: The Consequences of Failing to Prevent Fraud, with Gregory Udell and
Xiaoyun Yu [Download]
ุ
Winner of the
Best Paper Award in Financial Markets
and Institutions, 2012 FMA meetings
ุ On
the 2013 WFA program
[13] Providing
Protection or Encouraging Holdup? The Effects of Labor Unions on Innovation
with Daniel Bradley and Incheol Kim [Download]
ุ On the 2013 NBER Productivity, Entrepreneurship, and
Innovation program
ุ On the 2013 European Finance Association program
ุ On the Inaugural CSEF Conference on Finance and Labor program
ุ On the 2013 Kauffman Entrepreneurial Finance and
Innovation program
[14] Do Entrepreneurs Make
Good VCs? with Ye Cai and Merih Sevilir [Download]
ุ On the 2013 AFA program
[15] Acquiring Innovation, with Merih Sevilir [Download]
ุ On the 2012 AFA program
[16] Do Anti-takeover Provisions Spur Corporate Innovation? with Thomas Chemmanur [Download]
ุ On the 2012 AFA program
[17] Peer Monitoring and Syndication, with Thomas Chemmanur [Download]