Research
Research
My research interests focus on corporate ESG practices, ESG standard setting, and sustainable financing.
Public Environmental Enforcement and Private Lender Monitoring: Evidence from Environmental Covenants, with Stacey Choy, Shushu Jiang, Scott Liao, Journal of Accounting and Economics (forthcoming)
Recipient of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship Research Grant
Presented at the University of Texas at Austin (Liao), the University of British Columbia (Liao), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Liao), the University of Toronto (Jiang), Boston College (Liao), Syracuse University(Choy), 1st Accountability, Sustainability and Governance Workshop, University of Bristol (Wang), 2nd Peking University Guanghua Economics and Finance Alumni Symposium (Jiang), the Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting and Management Conference (Choy), FMA Annual Meeting 2021 (Choy), and Hawaii Accounting Research Conference 2022 (Wang)
Mitigating Greenwashing Concerns in the Green Bond Market (Dissertation)
Proposal approved by dissertation committee
Committee members: Jeffery Callen (Co-Chair), Hai Lu (Co-Chair), Gordon Richardson, Jee-Eun Shin, Jody Grewal
Presented at the University of Toronto, Cornell University, Nanyang Technological University, Northeastern University, Queen’s University, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, University of Maryland, University of Washington, and the 2023 FARS Midyear Meeting
Recipient of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship Research Grant
Inside the "Black Box" of Corporate ESG Practice: Field Evidence from China, with Hai Lu and Jee-Eun Shin
Presented at AAA 2022 Virtual (Wang), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Lu),
the University of Southern California (Lu), the University of Macau (Lu), Columbia University (Shin), Simon Fraser University (Lu)
Preparing for submission