Xinlei Zhao

Senior Financial Economist

Xinlei Zhao is a Senior Financial Economist in the Credit Risk Analysis Division of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

Published Works

"Return decomposition," (with Long Chen), forthcoming at Review of Financial Studies, 2009.

"Technological innovation and acquisitions," Management Science, 55, 2009, p. 1170-1183.

"The diversification discount puzzle: Evidence for a transactions cost resolution,"(with Raj Aggarwal), Financial Review, 44, 2009, p. 113-135.

"The significant issuance date return puzzle in seasoned equity offerings: A real options resolution," (with Raj Aggarwal), International Review of Financial Analysis, 17, 2008, p. 793-804.

"Do institutional investors care about voting rights? Evidence from institutional investment in dual-class firms," (with Kai Li and Hernan Ortiz-Molina), Financial Management, 37, 2008, p. 713-745

"Asymmetric information and dividend policy," (with Kai Li), Financial Management, 37, 2008, p. 673-694.

"Corporate boards and the leverage and debt maturity choices," (with Harfard Jarrad and Kai Li), International Journal of Corporate Governance, 1(1), 2008, p. 3-27.

"Market breadth, trin statistic, and market returns," (with Min Qi), Journal of Investing, 17(1), 2008, p. 65-73.

"Mechanical mean reversion of leverage ratios," (with Long Chen), Economics Letters, 95, 2007, p. 223-229.

"The leverage-value relationship puzzle: An industry effects resolution," (With Raj Aggarwal), Journal of Economics and Business, 59, 2007, p. 286-297.

"Role models in finance: Lessons from life cycle productivity of prolific scholars," (with Raj Aggarwal and David Schirm), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 28, 2007, p. 79-100.

"On the relation between the market-to-book ratio, growth opportunity, and leverage ratio," (with Long Chen), Financial Research Letters, 3, 2006, p. 253-266.

"Bank exposure to interest rate risk during financial liberalization: Evidence from South Korea," (with Raj Aggarwal and B. Philip Jeon), Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 12, 2006, p. 61-90.

"Propensity score matching and abnormal performance after seasoned equity offering," (with Xianghong Li), Journal of Empirical Finance, 13, 2006, p. 351-370.

"The information content of insider options trading," (with Robert Chen) Financial Management, 34, 2005, p.153-172.