Ai HE
Assistant Professor of Finance
Darla Moore School of Business
1014 Greene St, Columbia, South Carolina 29208
Research Interests
Financial Institutions
Empirical Asset Pricing
Climate Finance
Email: ai.he[at]moore[dot]sc[dot]edu
Publications
Shrinking Factor Dimension: A Reduced-Rank Approach (2023), Management Science, Vol. 69, No.9, 5501–5522
(with Dashan Huang, Jiaen Li, and Guofu Zhou )
Diagnostics for Asset Pricing Models (2023), Financial Management, Vol. 52, No.4, 617-642, Lead Article
(with Guofu Zhou )
Working Papers
Propagation of Climate Disasters through Ownership Networks
(with Matthew Gustafson, Ugur Lel, and Zhongling Qin)
2024 AFA; 2023 Texas A&M Young Scholars Finance Consortium, FIRS, JCF SI in Helsinki, AFFECT AFA Mentoring Workshop, WAPFIN@ Stern, FMA, CEIBS Finance & Accounting Academic Symposium
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Finance
(with Ricardo Correa, Christoph Herpfer, and Ugur Lel )
2023 RCFS Winter, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; 2022 JHU Carey Conference, FIRS, SFS Cavalcade NA; 2021 NFA, NBER Summer Institute, European FA, Pre-WFA Early Career Women in Finance Conference, Wharton Climate and Commodities Virtual Conference, MFA; 2020 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference, Paris December Finance Meeting
Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference Best Paper Award , 2020
Reject and Resubmit, Review of Finance
(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
Climate Change Shocks and Financial Constraints
2019 AFBC, CICF, MFA, Paris December Finance Meeting; 2018 SEC Doctoral Student Symposium