Meng Gao

Assistant Professor at UCONN - University of Connecticut

Schools

  • 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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