Education
Texas Tech University, PhD (Finance), 2009
Cameron University, MBA
Beijing University of Technology, Civil Engineering
Published Peer-Reviewed Papers since 2016
2026
1. Financial and Collaborative Drivers of Green Innovation Investment Quality in Heavily Polluting Firms: A Quadruple Helix Configuration Analysis, 2026, International Journal of Financial Studies, with Wang, Wang, and Li, forthcoming (B journal in ABDC).
2. Differentiated Pathways for Enhancing Green Innovation Quality in the Automotive Industry Guided by ESG Frameworks and Energy Policies, 2026, Sustainable Futures, with Wang, Wang, and Cebula, (Elsevier, ScienceDirect; SCI Q1 journal). DOI:10.2139/ssrn.5225914
3. Green Interaction on Online Platforms and Its Role in Enhancing Corporate ESG Performance: A Dual Green Innovation Chain Mediation Effect, 2026, Journal of Cleaner Production, with Wang, Jin, and Wang. (A journal in the ABDC list). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2026.147762
2025
4. Configurations for High‐Quality Environmental Disclosure in China's Dual Carbon Era, forthcoming, 2025, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, with Wang, Wang and Lin (B journal in the ABDC list). https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.70001
5. Scientometric Analysis of Development and Opportunities for Research in Digital Agriculture Innovation Management. Environmental Modelling and Software, forthcoming, 2025, with Wang, Wang, Cebula, Liang ( a ScienceDirect journal, with a impact factor of 4.8 in 2024)
2024
6. An Enhanced Refresher on Discounted Net Present Value Computations with an Additional Focus on Risk and Uncertainty.
The American journal of economics and sociology, v.83 no.4, 2024, pp.737 – 740, with Wang.
DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12574
7. Cross-Shareholding, Managerial Capabilities, and Strategic Risk-Taking in Enterprises: A Game or a Win-Win?
Finance Research Letters (A journal in the ABDC index), Vol 62, Part B, with Wang, Zhang, Cebula.
DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.105228
8. How to deter earnings manipulation in Chinese banks? A study from the combined effects of corporate governance, enterprise resources, and supervisory mechanisms,
American Journal of Economics and Sociology (B journal in the ABDC list), vol. 83(4), pages 689-707, September, with Wang, Dang, and Downs.
DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12568
9. The Impact of Higher Rent Levels on Private Health Insurance Enrollment: An Exploratory Analysis for a Single State, Virginia
American Journal of Economics and Sociology (B journal in the ABDC list), Special Issue, Vol 83(1), pp. 7-15, with Cebula, Ehrlich.
DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12504
2023
10. Mitigating Earnings Management in Times of Environmental Uncertainty: The Impact of Analysts' Coverage
Journal of Academy of Business and Economics (C journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 23-4, pp. 35-47, with Wang, Downs, and Chang.
DOI: 10.18374/JABE-23-4.3
11. Examining Small Bank Failures in the United States: An Analysis Using Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM)
Journal of Financial Economic Policy (B journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 162-175, with Cebula, Downs, and Johansen.
DOI: 10.1108/JFEP-09-2023-0280
12. Mixed Ownership, Political Connections, and Overinvestment
American Journal of Economics and Sociology (B journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 83(2), 4-7-425, with He, Cebula, Peng.
DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12549
13. Examining Small Bank Failures in the United States: An Application of the Random Effects Parametric Survival Model
Journal of Financial Economic Policy (B journal in the ABDC list), vol. 15(2), pages 104-122, January, with Cebula, Downs, Liu.
DOI: 10.1108/JFEP-12-2022-0297
14. Board Characteristics and IPO Underpricing in China: The Perspective of the Moderating Effect of Venture Capitalists
Finance Research Letters (A journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 52, March issue, with Wang, Wang, Cebula.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.103491
15. The Path Selection on Improving the Quality of Environmental Information Disclosure – Configuration Analysis Based on fsQCA
Applied Economics (A journal in the ABDC list), Vol 55, Issue 19, 2023, pp. 2207-2222, with Liang, Wang, Ma.
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2102134
2022
16. U.S. Small Bank Failures and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
Bank and Banks Systems (C journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 17, Issue 4, pp. 50-60, with Downs, Cebula, Johansen.
DOI: 10.21511/bbs.17(4).2022.05
17. Labor Shortages in the U.S. during the COVID Pandemic and Labor Supply Based on Minimizing the Effort to Achieve a Target Utility Level: Confounding Economic Policies
Journal of Financial Economic Policy (B journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 14(6), pp. 762-767, with Cebula.
DOI: 10.1108/JFEP-03-2022-0080
2021
13. Differential Risk Effect of Inside Debt, CEO Compensation Diversification, and Firm Investment
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (B journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 56, pp. 505–543, with Hu and Lee.
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-020-00901-0
14. Fulfillment of ESG Responsibilities and Firm Performance: A Zero-Sum Game or Mutually Beneficial?
Sustainability (indexed in RePEc), Vol. 13(19), with Liang, Tian, Cebula, Wang.
DOI: 10.3390/su131910954
2020
15. Housing Price and Urban Land Use Efficiency
Applied Economics Letters (B journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 28(21), pp. 1-4, with Wang, Cebula, and Liu.
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1803476
16. Spread Between the Moody’s Aaa-Rated Corporate Bond Yield and the Yield on Municipals: Co-Integration Analysis
Atlantic Economic Journal (C journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 48(2), pp. 175-184, with Cebula, Capener, Boylan.
DOI: 10.1007/s11293-020-09668-0
17. Can Debt Overhang Help Explain the Declining Growth Rate of Investment in China?
Applied Economics Letters (B journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 82–85, with Cebula, Peng, Li.
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1608352
18. How Do Farmers Make Investment Decisions? A Study Based on a Survey of 500 Farmers in China
Sustainability (indexed in RePEc), Vol. 12, No. 1, 247, with Wang, Liu.
DOI: 10.3390/su12010247
2019
19. How Efficient Can R&D Activities Be? A Study Based on High-Tech Industry in China
Academy of Economics and Finance Journal, pp. 103–113, with Cebula, Wang.
20. An Empirical Analysis for the U.S. of the Effects of Government Budget Deficits on the Ex-Ante Real Interest Rate Yields on Thirty-Year and Twenty-Year Treasury Bonds
Economia Internazionale / International Economics (C journal in the ABDC list), Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 231–252, with Cebula.
21. Using Nested Logit Model in the Study of Proxy Contest
Journal of Mathematical Finance, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 202–207, with Hu, Rossi, Cebula.
DOI: 10.4236/jmf.2019.92011
2018
22. Debt and investment: a firm level evidence
Journal of Mathematical Finance, 2018, Vol. 8, No. 1, with Peng, Cebula, Hu, DOI: 10.4236/jmf.2018.81010, 119-126
23. Does weak macroeconomic performance affect voter turnout? An analysis accounting for “The Joshua generation effect”
International Economics / Economia Internazionale, 2018, Volume 71-1, 9-28. (a C journal in ABDC list), with Cebula and Ghose.
2017
24. Women in the Boardroom and Corporate Decisions of Italian listed companies: Does the “critical mass” matter?"
Management Decision, 2017, 55(7):1578-1595 with Rossi, and Hu (a B journal in ABDC list).
25. The effect of labor market freedom and other factors on U.S. settlement pattern decisions of undocumented immigrants, 2012 and 2014
Economia Internationzionale / International Economics, Volume 70 Issue 2, pp. 133-152, 2017, with Cebula, (a C journal in ABDC list)
2016
26. Valuing new product development project with stochastic volatility model
Journal of Mathematical Finance, with Hu, Jun., Vol.6-5, November 2016, 975-1001, DOI: 10.4236/jmf.2016.65064,
27. Economic freedom and real income
The Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 2016, 46(1), 52-59, with J.R. Clark.
28. Financial market determinants of the real cost funds to public corporations in the US: 2SLS and GMM findings
Journal of Financial Economic Policy, 2016, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2-12, with Cebula, Rossi, and Dajci.
29. Estimation of the liquidity trap using a panel threshold model
Applied Economic Letters, 2016, Vol. 16-23, pp. 1134-1137, with Peng, Cebula, and Zhan, doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2015.1137544
