Qianqian Yu

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 the 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

• Corporate Patenting, Customer Capital, and Financial Market Outcomes, with Mine Ertugrul, Karthik Krishnan, and Bo Xu. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
• Top Management Human Capital, Inventor Mobility, and Corporate Innovation, with Thomas Chemmanur, Lei Kong, and Karthik Krishnan, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54(6), 2383–2422, 2019.
• 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. 

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.
• CEO Political Ideology, Firm Governance, and Innovative Behavior, with Andreea Kiss and Andrew Ward.
• 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.
• Trademarks and Entrepreneurial Firm Success: Theory and Evidence from Private Firm Exits and Initial Public Offerings, with Onur Bayar, Thomas Chemmanur, Harshit Rajaiya, and Xuan Tian.
• 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