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Lehigh Business
Qianqian Yu
Assistant Professor
Perella Department of Finance
Office: RBC 407C
qiy617@lehigh.edu
610-758-2919
Courses Taught
- Corporate Financial Policy
- Startup and Venture Capital Finance
Professor Yu’s research primarily focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, and financial intermediation. She has published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and has presented her work at top-tier finance conferences including the American Finance Association Meeting, the Western Finance Association Meeting, the Financial Management Association Meeting, and the Northern Finance Association Meeting.
Education
- Boston College, Ph.D.
- University of British Columbia, M.S.
- University of British Columbia, M.A.
- Beijing Foreign Studies University, B.A.
Research Interests
- Corporate Finance
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Venture Capital
- Financial Intermediation
- Top Management Human Capital, Inventor Mobility, and Corporate Innovation, joint with Thomas Chemmanur, Lei Kong, and Karthik Krishnan. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54(6), 2383–2422, December 2019.
- Corporate Patenting, Customer Capital, and Financial Market Outcomes, joint with Mine Ertugrul, Karthik Krishnan, and Bo Xu. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 59(5), 2425–2458, August 2024.
- Knowledge Spillover and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET, joint with Mine Ertugrul and Karthik Krishnan. Research Policy, 53(9), 105091, November 2024.
- How Does Greater Bank Competition Affect Borrower Screening? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Based on China’s WTO Entry, with Thomas Chemmanur, Jiaqi Qin, Yan Sun, and Xiang Zheng, Journal of Corporate Finance, 65, 101776, 2020.
- Recent Developments in the FinTech Industry, joint with Thomas Chemmanur, Michael Imerman, and Harshit Rajaiya. Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions, 8(1), 2040002, 2020.
- Information Production by Institutions and Information Extraction by Underwriters in Hybrid IPO Auctions, with Thomas Chemmanur, Pengfei Ma, and Chaopeng Wu. Review of Corporate Finance, forthcoming.
- Breaking Through? The Divergent Consequences of CEO Political Ideology on Firm Inventiveness, joint with Andreea Kiss, François Neville, and Andrew Ward. Accepted at Journal of Management.
- Trademarks and Entrepreneurial Firm Success: Theory and Evidence from Private Firm Exits and Initial Public Offerings, joint with Thomas Chemmanur, Harshit Rajaiya, and Xuan Tian. Accepted at Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice.
- Environmental Regulation, State Ownership, and Corporate Green Investment: Evidence from China’s2015 Environmental Protection Law Revisions, joint with Thomas Chemmanur, Bo Cheng, and Zi-Tian Wang. Accepted at Journal of Business Ethics.
Working Papers
- Do Venture Capital-Driven Top Management Changes Enhance Corporate Innovation in Private Firms?
- Strategic Regulatory Non-Disclosure: The Case of the Missing Form D, with Kathleen Hanley.
- Venture Capital Backing, Investor Attention, and Initial Public Offerings, with Thomas Chemmanur and Karthik Krishnan.
- Human Capital, Management Quality, and Firm Performance, with Thomas Chemmanur, Lei Kong, and Karthik Krishnan.
- The Entrepreneurial Finance of Fintech Firms and the Effect of Fintech Investments on the Performance of Corporate Investors, with Thomas Chemmanur, Michael Imerman, and Harshit Rajaiya.
Grants, Honors and Awards
- Winner of the Kauffman Knowledge Challenge: Insight to Impact (one of 32 grants nationwide from the inaugural Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge), Kauffman Foundation, 2018
- Semifinalist for the Best Paper at the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, 2015, 2018
- Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000 grant to support research on entrepreneurship), Kauffman Foundation, 2016