Ai HE
Assistant Professor of Finance
Darla Moore School of Business
1014 Greene St, Columbia, South Carolina 29208
Research Interests
Financial Intermediaries, Financial Institutions
Empirical Asset Pricing
ESG Finance
Email: ai.he[at]moore.sc.edu
Working Papers
The Rising Tide Lifts Some Interest Rates: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Loan Pricing
(with Ricardo Correa, Christoph Herpfer, and Ugur Lel ) New draft coming soon
2021 MFA, 2020 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference, Paris December Finance Meeting, Shanghai-Edinburgh Green Finance Conference
Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference Best Paper Award , 2020
Spillovers of Natural Disaster Strikes through Bank-Firm Networks: Loan- and Firm-Level Evidence of Financial Constraints
2019 AFBC, CICF, MFA, Paris December Finance Meeting; 2018 SEC Doctoral Student Symposium
(with Dashan Huang and Guofu Zhou )
2020 AFA, CIRF; 2019 CQA, Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting, CICF; 2018 Conference on Financial Predictability and Data Science
Winner of Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Competition (3rd place) , 2019
CIRF/CFRI Best Paper Award , 2020
(with Yufeng Han, David Rapach, and Guofu Zhou )
2019 AFA; 2018 International Symposium on Forecasting
AFA Poster | European Central Bank Presentation
2018 AFA Phd Poster Session, European Central Bank Money Markets Workshop; 2017 NFA, LBS Transatlantic Doctoral Conference, FMA, European Money and Finance Forum Colloquium & Bank of Finland Conference; 2016 AFBC PhD Forum & Main Conference
FMA Semi-finalist of the Best Paper in Markets & Institutions, 2017
AFBC Best Ph.D. Paper Award (3rd place) , 2016