Current PhD Candidates
Full Name: Lei ZHANG
Country: China
Field of specialization: Finance
Year of entry: 2004
Tel: +33 1 60 72 92 24
E-mail: lei.zhang@insead.edu
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Research Interests
Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Structure, Financial Intermediaries, Dividend Policy, Structural Models in Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing

Dissertation
Essays on Corporate Finance

Work in Progress

"Why do firms pay cash in acquisitions? Evidence from a catering perspective", INSEAD working paper, August 2008

(See Attached File)

"Stocks, bonds and debt imbalance: the role of relative availability of bond and bank financing", with Massimo Massa, INSEAD working paper 2008 (under revision).

(See Attached File)

"The effects of organizational structure on asset management", with Massimo Massa, INSEAD working paper 2007 (under revision).

(See Attached File)

"Institutional investors, credit supply uncertainty, and the leverage of the firm", with Massimo Massa and Ayako Yasuda, INSEAD working paper 2007 (under revision).

"Cosmetic mergers: the effect of style investing on the market for corporate control", with Massimo Massa, INSEAD working paper 2006 (under review). (See Attached File)


Selected Publications
"Classical and Impulse Stochastic Control for the Optimization of the Risk and Dividend Policies of an Insurance Firm", with A. Cadenillas, T. Choulli and M. Taksar, Mathematical Finance, vol 16, pp. 181-202, 2006. (See Attached File)


Selected Conference Presentations

American Finance Association Meeting, San Francisco, California, January, 2009 (Scheduled)

European Finance Association Meeting, Athens, Greece, August, 2008

China International Finance Conference, Dalian, China, July, 2008

NUS Risk Management Conference, Singapore, July, 2008

FIRS Finance Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, June, 2008

Eastern Finance Association Meeting, Tempa, Florida, April, 2008

Midwest Finance Association Meeting, San Antonio, February, 2008

Paris Finance International Meeting, Paris, France, December, 2007

Education
BS. & MS. Mathematics (1998-2004), Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

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