Meng Gao
Assistant Professor at UCONN - University of Connecticut
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- UCONN - University of Connecticut
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Biography
UCONN - University of Connecticut
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
- Ph.D., Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
- B.S., Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Corporate governance, executive compensation, insider trading, financial analysts, and informed trading
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Connecticut, 2020–Present
WORKING PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Get the Money Somehow: The Effect of Missing Performance Goals on Insider Trading, 2020,
- Informing the Market: The Effect of Modern Information Technologies on Information Production, 2020, Review of Financial Studies 33, 1367–1411 [Editor’s Choice, lead article].
- Capitalizing on Capitol Hill: Informed Trading by Hedge Fund Managers, 2016, with Jiekun Huang, Journal of Financial Economics 121, 521–545.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2019 AFA Student Travel Grant
- 2017-18 Corzine Fellowship
- 2017-2018 Paul M. Van Arsdell Sr. Teaching Award
- Appeared on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, Summer 2017
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