Contact Information

Office: (574) 631-8048

Email Paul Gao

Pengjie Gao

Assistant Professor of Finance

Department of Finance
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Ph.D. in Finance, 2007
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure; Investment; Household Financial Decisions

Select Published Papers

Clientele Change, Liquidity shock, and the Return on Financially Distressed Stocks, 2007, with Zhi Da, Forthcoming JFQA.

Select Research Papers

Commercial Paper, Lines of Credit, and the Real Effects of the Financial Crisis of 2008: Firm-level Evidence from the Manufacturing Industry, 2009, with Hayong Yun. [longer version of the paper contains more results on banking relationship and syndicated loan market], under revise and resubmit

The Value of a Rolodex: CEO Pay and Personal Network, 2009, with Joey Engelberg and Chris Parsons, under revise and resubmit

In Search of Attention, 2009, with Zhi Da and Joey Engelberg, under review

The Pre-Earnings Announcement Drift, 2009, with Peter D. Easton and George Gao.

Informed Trading, Liquidity Provision and Mutual Funds Stock Selection, 2009, with Zhi Da and Ravi Jagannathan.

An Anatomy of Pairs Trading: the Role of Idiosyncratic News, Common Information and Liquidity, 2009, with Joey Engelberg and Ravi Jagannathan. (Old Version: Latest version coming soon)

Clientele Changes, Persistent Liquidity Shock, and Short-term Return Reversal After Bond Rating Downgrades, 2008, with Zhi Da.

Conference Discussions

Slides can be downloaded here.

Teaching

Course Website: Advanced Investment Strategies (You need ND NETID to access)

Course Syllabus

Case Development

Extraordinary Partners LLP ( 2007)

Notre Dame Endowment Office
( 2008)