Lei Kong
- December 17th, 2018
| Email: | lkong@culverhouse.ua.edu |
| Department: | Economics, Finance, & Legal Studies |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Phone: | 205-348-8988 |
| Building: | Alston |
| Office: | 233 |
| Education: | PhD, Boston College |
| MS, Tsinghua University | |
| BS, Tsinghua University |
Honors, Achievements & Affiliations
FMA Doctoral Consortium, FMA. (October 2015).
NBER Entrepreneurship Boot Camp, NBER. (July 2014).
Student Travel Award, AFA. (January 2014).
Focus and Current Research
Empirical Corporate Finance
Corporate Innovation
Internal Capital Markets
Selected Publications
“Top Management Human Capital, Inventor Mobility, and Corporate Innovation.” (With Thomas Chemmanur, Karthik Krishnan, and Qianqian Yu.) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Economics. Forthcoming.
“Government Spending and Corporate Innovation.” Working Paper.
“Human Capital, Management Quality, and Firm Performance.” (With Thomas Chemmanur and Karthik Krishnan.) Working Paper.
“Internal Capital Markets in Conglomerate Firms: Evidence from Presidential Cycles.” Working Paper.
“The Informativeness of Insider Trading and Shareholder Horizon.” (With Xudong Fu, Lori Tang, and Xinyan Yan.) Working Paper.
“Product Consumption and Information Digestion.” (With Chengwei Wang.) Working Paper.