Research in finance, labor, market structure, and technological change

Publications

1. Match to grow (with M. Zheng), accepted, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
2. Price Clustering and the Informational Efficiency of Stock Prices (with A. Baig, B. Blau, and T. Griffith), accepted, Journal of Financial Research.
3. Local labor match and corporate investments: Evidence from new flight routes (with L. Thompson), Journal of Financial Research, 2025.
4. The value of talents (with L. Thompson and Z. Wei), Financial Review, 2025.
5. The impact of social distancing on trading activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, Financial Management, 2024.
6. Information shocks, disagreement, and drift (with W. Armstrong and L. Cardella), Journal of Financial Economics, 2021.
7. Free trade and the efficiency of financial markets (with A. Baig and B. Blau), Global Finance Journal, 2021.
8. Cryptocurrency accepting venues, investor attention, and volatility, Finance Research Letters, 2020.
9. Does short selling affect the clustering of stock prices? (with A. Baig), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2020.
10. Price clustering after the introduction of bitcoin futures (with A. Baig and O. Haroon), Applied Finance Letters, 2020.
11. Price clustering and sentiment in bitcoin (with A. Baig and B. Blau), Finance Research Letters, 2019.
12. Have Stock Prices become more Uniformly Distributed? (with A. Baig and D. Winters), Economics Bulletin, 2019.
13. Pricing of Islamic deposit insurance (with M. Hassan), Economics Letters, 2019.

Working Papers

1. Peek-a-Book: Who Hides in the Limit Order Book, and When?
2. Automation potential and broad-based stock options (with M. Karim)
3. Neighborhood effects on employee treatment (with M. Karim)
4. Stock market-related policy uncertainty and price efficiency

Permanent Working Papers

1. Local Labor Match: Implications for Asset Prices
2. Systematic volume spikes and intraday liquidity patterns: Fingerprints of HFT activity? (with W. Armstrong and L. Cardella)

Refereed Publications in Other Areas

Healthcare economics publications can be listed here as a separate subsection.

• AFA Doctoral Student Travel Grant, 2018
• Outstanding Contribution in Research as a Doctoral Student, Texas Tech University, 2018
• Outstanding Contribution in Teaching as a Doctoral Student, Texas Tech University, 2017
• Rawls Graduate Endowed Scholarship, Texas Tech University, 2017–2019
• J.T. and Margaret Talkington Graduate Fellowship, Texas Tech University, 2014–2018
• Study Abroad Scholarship, Texas Tech University, 2015–2016
• Graduate Scholarship, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, 2011–2012
• University Scholarship, BUET, 2002–2007

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