Selected Publications:
Corporate Yield Spreads and Bond Liquidity, with David Lesmond and Jason
Wei, Journal of Finance, 62 (2007), 119-149; ranked by Journal of Finance as one
of the top ten most cited articles from Journal of Finance.
The Expected Value Premium, with Ralitsa Petkova and Lu Zhang, Journal of
Financial Economics, 87 (2008), 269-280.
Expected Returns, Yield Spreads, and Asset Pricing Tests, with Murillo
Campello and Lu Zhang, Review of Financial Studies, 21(3) (2008), 1297-1338.
On the Reversal of Dividend and Return Predictability: A Tale of Two
Periods, Journal of Financial Economics, 92(1) (2009), 128-151.
On the Relation between the Credit Spread Puzzle and the Equity Premium
Puzzle, with Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Robert Goldstein, Review of Financial
Studies, 22(9) (2009), 3367-3409.
Return Decomposition, with Xinlei Zhao, Review of Financial Studies, 22(12)
(2009), 5213-5249; ranked by RFS as one of the most cited RFS papers published
in 2009.
Do Time-Varying Risk Premiums Explain Labor Market Performance? With Lu
Zhang, Journal of Financial Economics, 99(2) (2011), 385-399.
Dividend Smoothing and Predictability, with Zhi Da and Richard Priestley,
forthcoming,Management Science.
Are Financial Constraints Priced? Evidence from Firm Fundamentals and
Stocks, with Murillo Campello, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 42 (2010),
1185-1198.
On the Relation between the Market-to-Book Ratio, Growth opportunity, and
Leverage Ratio, with Shelly Zhao, Finance Research Letters, 3(2006) 253-266.
Mechanical Mean Reversion of Leverage Ratios, with Shelly Zhao, Economic
Letters, 95 (2007) 223-229.
Working Papers:
An Alternative Three-Factor Model, With Robert Novy-Marx and Lu Zhang
What Drives Stock Price Movements? With Xinlei Zhao
What Moves Aggregate Investment? With Zhi Da and Borja Larrain
Myopic Extrapolation, Price Momentum, and Price Reversal, with Claudia
Moise and Xinlei Zhao; presented at EFA 2009 and WFA 2010
Fresh Momentum, with Ohad Kadan and Kose Engin
Inflation and Credit Risk, with Hui Chen