Sauder School of Business




Recent Publications


Forthcoming

Harjoat S. Bhamra and Raman Uppal
The Effect of Introducing a Non-Redundant Deerivative on the Volatility of Stock-Market Returns When Agents Differ in Risk Aversion
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

M. Martin Boyer and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Career Concerns of Top Executives, Managerial Ownership and CEO Succession
Corporate Governance: An International Review, forthcoming

Phelim Boyle, Shui Feng, Weidong Tian, and Tan Wang
Robust Stochastic Discount Factors
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

Erinn B. Broshko and Kai Li
Corporate Governance Requirements in Canada and the United States: A Legal and Empirical Comparison of the Principles-based and Rules-based Approaches
Canadian Investment Review, forthcoming

Laurent Calvet and Adlai Fisher
Multifrequency News and Stock Returns
Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Laurent Calvet, Adlai Fisher, and Samuel Thompson
Volatility Comovement: A Multifrequency Approach
Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming

Murray Carlson, Zeigham Khokher, and Sheridan Titman
Equilibrium Exhaustible Resource Price Dynamics
Journal of Finance, forthcoming

Xia Chen, Jarrad Harford, and Kai Li
Monitoring: Which Institutions Matter?
Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Jaksa Cvitanic, Ali Lazrak, Lionel Martellini, and Fernando Zapatero
Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Parameter Uncertainty and the Economic Value of Analysts' Recommendations
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

Marcin Kacperczyk, Clemens Sialm, and Lu Zheng
Industry Concentration and Mutual Fund Performance
Journal of Investment Management, forthcoming

Marcin Kacperczyk, Clemens Sialm, and Lu Zheng
Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

Alan Kraus and Jacob Sagi
Asset Pricing with Unforeseen Contingencies
Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Alan Kraus and Jacob Sagi
Inter-temporal Preference for Flexibility and Risky Choice
Journal of Mathematical Economics, forthcoming

Kai Li, Hernan Ortiz-Molina, and Xinlei Zhao
Do Shareholder Rights Affect Institutional Investment Decisions? Evidence from Dual-Class Firms
Financial Management, forthcoming

Hernan Ortiz-Molina and Maria F. Penas
Lending to Small Businesses: The Role of Loan Maturity in Addressing Information Problems
Small Business Economics, forthcoming

Dimitri Vayanos and Tan Wang
Search and Endogenous Concentration of Liquidity in Asset Markets
Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming



2007

Lorenzo Garlappi, Raman Uppal, and Tan Wang
Portfolio Selection with Parameter and Model Uncertainty: A Multi-Prior Approach
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, 2007, pp.41-81

Jarrad Harford and Kai Li
Decoupling CEO Wealth and Firm Performance: The Case of Acquiring CEOs
Journal of Finance, Vol. 62, 2007, 917-949

Marcin Kacperczyk and Amit Seru
“Fund Manager Use of Public Information: New Evidence on Managerial Skills”
Journal of Finance, Vol. 62, 2007, 485-528

Kai Li
The Growth in Equity Market Size and Trading Activity: An International Study
Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 14, 2007, 59-90

Kai Li and N.R. Prabhala
Self-Selection Models in Corporate Finance
Chapter 2 in: Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance, Handbooks in Finance Series, Elsevier/North Holland, 2007

William McNally and Kai Li
The Information Content of Canadian Open Market Share Repurchase Announcements
Managerial Finance, Vol. 33, 2007, 65-80

Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Executive Compensation and Capital Structure: The Effects of Convertible Debt and Straight Debt
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 43, 2007, 69-93.



2006

Harjoat S. Bhamra and Raman Uppal
The Role of Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Substitution in Dynamic Consumption-Portfolio Choice with Recursive Utility
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 30, 2006, 967-991.

Murray Carlson, Adlai Fisher, and Ron Giammarino
Corporate Investment and Asset Price Dynamics: Implications for SEO Event Studies and Long-Run Performance
Journal of Finance, Vol. 61, 2006,1009-1034.

Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Top-Management Incentives and the Pricing of Corporate Public Debt
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 41, 2006, 317-340.



2005

Amir Barnea, Robert Heinkel, and Alan Kraus
“Green Investors and Corporate Investment”
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 16, 2005, 332-346.

H. Henry Cao, Tan Wang, and Harold H. Zhang
“Model Uncertainty, Limited Market Participation, and Asset Prices”
Review of Financial Studies, Vol.18, 2005, 1219 - 1251.

Albert S. Dexter, Maurice Levi, and Barrie Nault
“International Trade and the Connection between Capacity and Inflation”
Review of International Economics, Vol. 13, 2005, 699-708.

Ron Giammarino and Ed Nosal
Loggers versus Campers: Compensation for the Taking of Property Rights
The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol. 21, 2005, 136-152.

Michael A. Goldberg, Robert Heinkel, and Maurice Levi
Foreign Direct Investment: The Human Dimension
Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 24, 2005, 913-934.

Marcin Kacperczyk, Clemens Sialm, and Lu Zheng
“On the Industry Concentration of Actively Managed Mutual Funds”
Journal of Finance, Vol. 60, 2005,1983-2012.

Jun Liu, Jun Pan, and Tan Wang
“An Equilibrium Model of Rare-Event Premia and Its Implication for Option Smirks”
Review of Financial Studies, Vol.18, 2005, 131 - 164.



2004

Andres Almazan, Keith C. Brown, Murray Carlson, and David A. Chapman
“Why Constrain Your Mutual Fund Manager?”
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 73, 2004, 289-321.

Werner Antweiler and Murray Z. Frank
“Is All That Talk Just Noise? The Information Content of Internet Stock Message Boards”
Journal of Finance, Vol. 59, 2004,1259-1295.

Laurent Calvet and Adlai Fisher
“How to Forecast Long-Run Volatility: Regime-Switching and the Estimationof Multifractal Processes”
Journal of Financial Econometrics, Vol. 2, 2004, 49-83.

Murray Carlson, Adlai Fisher, and Ron Giammarino
“Corporate Investment and Asset Price Dynamics: Implications for the Cross-Section of Returns”
Journal of Finance, Vol. 59, 2004,2577-2603.

Chris D'Souza and Charles Gaa
“How liquid are Canadas?”
Canadian Investment Review, Vol. 21, 2004, 23-28

Ronald Giammarino, Robert Heinkel, Burton Hollifield, and Kai Li
Corporate Decisions, Information and Prices: Do Managers Move Prices or Do Prices Move Managers?
Economic Notes, Vol. 33, 2004, 83-110.

Ali Lazrak
“Generalized Stochastic Differential Utility and Preference for Information”
Annals of Applied Probability, Vol.14, 2004, 2149-2175.

Ali Lazrak and Fernando Zapatero
“Efficient Consumption Set under Recursive Utility and Unknown Beliefs”
Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 40, 2004, 207-226.

Kai Li
“Confidence in the Familiar: An International Perspective”
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 39, 2004, 47-68.

Barrie Nault and Maurice Levi
“Converting to a Cleaner Technology: Environmental Policy with Heterogeneous Firms”
Management Science, Vol. 50,2004, 1015-1030.

Tan Wang and T. Wirjanto
“The Role of Risk Aversion and Uncertainty in an Individual's Migration Decision”
Stochastic Models, Vol. 20, 2004, 129-147.



2003

Sugato Chakravarty and Kai Li
“A Bayesian Analysis of Dual Trader Informativeness in Futures Markets”
Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 10, 2003, 355-371.

Sugato Chakravarty and Kai Li
“An Examination of Own Account Trading by Dual Traders in FuturesMarkets”
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 69, 2003, 375-397.

Jaksa Cviatanic, Ali Lazrak, Lionel Martellini, and Fernando Zapatero
“Optimal Allocation to Hedge Funds: An Empirical Analysis”
Quantitative Finance, Vol. 3, 2003, 29-39.

Burton Hollifield, Kai Li, and Gary Koop
“A Bayesian Analysis of a Variance Decomposition for Stock Returns”
Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 10, 2003, 583-601.

Mark Kamstra, Lisa Kramer, and Maurice Levi
“Winter Blues: A SAD Stock Market Cycle”
American Economic Review, Vol. 93,2003, 324-343.

Alan Kraus and Amir Rubin
“The Effect of Short Sale Constraint Removal on Volatility in the Presence of Heterogeneous Beliefs”
International Review of Finance, Vol. 4, 2003, pp. 171-188.

Ali Lazrak and Marie Claire Quenez
“A Generalized Stochastic Differential Utility”
Mathematics of Operation Research, Vol. 28, 2003, 154-180.

Kai Li and William McNally
“The Decision to Repurchase, Announcement Returns and Insider Holdings: A Conditional Event Study”
ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, Vol.9, 2003, 55-70.

Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
“An Econometric Model of Birth Inputs and Outputs for Native Americans”
Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 113, 2003, 337-361.

Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
“Bayesian Analysis of an Econometric Model of Birth Inputs and Outputs”
Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 16, 2003, 597-625.

Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
“Relationship between Maternal Behavior During Pregnancy, Birth Outcome, and Early Childhood Development: An Exploratory Study”
Proceedings of the CESifo Conference on Health and Economic Policy.

Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
“The Roles of Birth Inputs and Outputs in Predicting Health, Behavior,and Test Scores in Early Childhood”
Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 22, 2003, 3489-3514.

Kai Li, Asani Sarkar, and Zhenyua Wang
“Diversification Benefits of Emerging Markets Subject to Portfolio Constraints”
Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 10, 2003, 57-80.

Raman Uppal and Tan Wang
“Model Misspecification and Under Diversification”
Journal of Finance, Vol.58, 2003, 2465-2486.

Tan Wang
“Conditional Preferences and Updating”
Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.108, 2003, 286-321.



2002

Laurent Calvet and Adlai Fisher
“Multifractality in Asset Returns: Theory and Evidence”
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 84, 2002, 381-406.

Albert S. Dexter, Maurice Levi, and Barrie R. Nault
“Sticky Prices: The Impact of Regulation”
Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 49, 2002, 797-821.

Antoine Gautier, Frieda Granot, and Maurice Levi
“Alternative Foreign Exchange Management Protocols: An Application of Sensitivity Analysis”
Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Vol. 12, 2002, 1-20.

Mark Kamstra, Lisa Kramer, and Maurice Levi
“Should We Lose Sleep Over the Daylight Saving Anomaly? Reply: A Tale of Two Tails”
American Economic Review, Vol. 92,2002, 1257-1263.

Kai Li
“What Explains the Growth of Global Equity Markets?”
Canadian Investment Review, Vol.15, 2002, 23-30.

Kai Li and Asani Sarkar
“Should US Investors Hold Foreign Stocks?”
Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 8, 2002, 1-6.



2001

P. Boyle and Tan Wang
“Valuation of New Securities in an Incomplete Market: The Catch 22 of Derivative Pricing”
Mathematical Finance, Vol. 11, 2001, 267-284.

Laurent Calvet and Adlai Fisher
“Forecasting Multifractal Volatility”
Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 105, 2001, 27-58.

Jaksa Cvitanic, Ali Lazrak, Marie Claire Quenez, and Fernando Zapatero
“Recursive Utility Optimization under Incomplete Information”
International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 4, 2001, 1-17.

Robert Heinkel, Alan Kraus, and Josef Zechner
“The Effect of Green Investment on Corporate Behavior”
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 36, 2001, 431-449.

Kai Li and Gary Koop
“The Valuation of IPO and SEO Firms”
Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 8, 2001, 375-401.

Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
“An Econometric Analysis of the Birth Process by Racial/EthnicGroups”
Bayesian Methods with Applications to Science, Policy, and Official Statistics, Selected Papers from ISBA 2000: The Sixth World Meeting of the InternationalSociety for Bayesian Analysis, ed. E. George, 321-330.

Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
“Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the US to Study the Birth Process: A Bayesian Approach”
Research in Official Statistics, Vol. 4, 2001, 127-150.

Tan Wang
“Equilibrium with New Investment Opportunities”
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 25, 2001, 1751-1773.




 
 
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