Education Qualifications

Ph.D., Finance, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 1999

Academic and Professional Experience

Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore, 2008 - Present Visiting Senior Fellow, National University of Singapore, 2006 - 2008 Visiting Scholar, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, 2005 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Finance, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2000 - 2005 Lecturer of Finance, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1999 - 2000 Consultant on International Financial Markets, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, 1995

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Market segmentation, liquidity spillover, and closed-end country fund discounts, with Justin S. P. Chan and Yihong Xia, Journal of Financial Markets, 2008 Alternatives for going public: Evidence from reverse takeovers, self-underwritten IPOs, and traditional IPOs, with Kimberly C. Gleason and Leonard Rosenthal, Financial Decisions, 2008 Institutional and individual investor preferences for dividends and share repurchases, Journal of Economics and Business, 2007 Direct stock purchases and abnormal returns, Journal of Applied Finance, 2006 The effective bid-ask spread and transaction likelihood, with A. Ferri, Managerial Finance, 2005

Research Interests

Corporate Finance Empirical Finance

Courses

BMA 5008  Financial Management (MBA) BMA 5302  Investment Analysis and Management (MBA)

Teaching Awards

Outstanding Educator Award, NUS Business School, 2009-2010 MBA Best Lecturer Award, NUS Business School, 2009 Outstanding Educator Award, Department of Finance, NUS Business School, 2008-2009 Commendation for Teaching Excellence, Department of Finance, 2008-2009, 2007-2008, 2006-2007