Candidates on the market

Placement coordinator: Hendrik Bessembinder

DuckKi Cho

Job Market Paper: Downward Wage Rigidity and Corporate Investment

Working Papers:
Ephemeral Experiences, Long Lived Impact: Disasters and Portfolio Choice (with Sreedhar T. Bharath; awarded Best Paper Award in Behavioral Finance at the 2016 MFA Annual Meeting)

Win-Stay, Lose-Shift: A Strategy of Serial Acquirers (with Sreedhar T. Bharath and Lyungmae Choi)

Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Labor Economics

References:
Hendrik Bessembinder (Arizona State University)
Sreedhar T. Bharath (Arizona State University)
Michael Hertzel (Arizona State University)
Jessie Jiaxu Wang (Arizona State University)

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/duckkicho/home

Email: duckki.cho@asu.edu

Phone: 602-334-9245

Sean Flynn

Curriculum Vita

Job Market Paper: Debt Structure and Future Financing and Investment

Working Papers:
Competition and Credit Ratings after the Fall (with Andra C Ghent); forthcoming in Management Science

Why do Issuers Pay? Explaining the Switch in Credit Rating Agency Business Model

Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Financial Regulation, Financial History

References:
Yuri Tserlukevich (Arizona State University)
Mike Hertzel (Arizona State University)
Andra Ghent (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Luke Stein (Arizona State University)

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/seanjflynnjr/home

Email: sjflynn1@asu.edu

Phone: 605-999-5170

Hong Zhao

Curriculum Vita

Job Market Paper: Executive Labor Market Segmentation: How Local Market Density Affects Incentives and Performance

Working Papers:
Distracted Directors (with Luke Stein)

"Passing the Baton": The Effects of CEO Succession Planning on Firm Performance and Volatility

Research Interests: Empirical Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Managerial Incentive, Hedge Fund Activism

References:
Michael Hertzel (Arizona State University)
George Aragon (Arizona State University)
Ilona Babenko (Arizona State University)
Jeffrey Coles (University of Utah)
Luke Stein (Arizona State University)

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu/hong-zhao/

Email: hzhao25@asu.edu

Phone: 480-646-2763