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Faculty Profile

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MA Pengfei

Assistant Professor of Finance

LKCSBFull-time Faculty

Email
pengfeima@smu.edu.sg

Research Areas

  • Lee Kong Chian School of Business
    • Digital Business
    • Finance
      • Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
      • Financial Innovation and FinTech
      • Behavioural Finance
      • Wealth Management
      • Real Estate Finance
      • Banking and Financial Intermediation
    • Operations Management
      • Supply Chain Strategy and Risk Management
  • School of Economics
    • Applied Microeconomics
      • Health Economics

Strategic Priorities

  • Digital Transformation

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Education

2023 Ph.D. in Finance, Indiana University
2019 M.Sc. in Business Administration, Indiana University                                                          
2015  M.Sc. in Business Administration, Xiamen University                                          
2012 B.A. in Financial Management, Xiamen University

Current Position(s) Held

Jul 2023 - Now  Assistant Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • AFA Travel Grant, 2023
  • FMA Doctoral Student Consortium, 2022
  • EFA Travel Grant, 2022
  • Craig Holden Memorial Doctoral Fellowship, 2022
  • Doctoral Student Research Travel Award, Indiana University, 2018
  • Doctoral Student Research Productivity Award, Indiana University, 2018, 2019
  • Doctoral Fellowship, Indiana University, 2017-2022
  • National Endeavor Fellowship by Ministry of Education of China, 2011

Research Interests

  • Corporate Finance, Banking, and Household Finance

Journal Articles (Refereed)

  1. Loan Spreads and Credit Cycles: The Role of Lenders' Personal Economic Experiences, with Daniel Carvalho and Janet Gao, Journal of Financial Economics 148 (2), 118-149, 2023
  2. Partisanship in Loan Pricing, with Ramona Dagostino and Janet Gao, Journal of Financial Economics, 150(3), 103717, 2023
  3. Information Production by Institutions and Information Extraction by Underwriters in Hybrid IPO Auctions, with Thomas Chemmanur, Chaopeng Wu, and Qianqian Yu, Review of Corporate Finance, 5(3-4), 291-348, 2025
  4. Labor Capacity Constraints in Mortgage Lending: Evidence from Loan Officers

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