Department of Finance - Candidates on the Market
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
Job Market Paper: Debt Structure and Financial Flexibility
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: Debt structure, financial flexibility, credit ratings and rating agencies, financial regulation
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
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