Postdoctoral Bye Fellow in Finance
Management Studies
Bye fellow
Degrees:
- Ph.D. in Finance, University of Utah
- M.S. in Finance, University of Utah
- B.A. in Financial Management, Nankai University
Awards & Prizes:
- College Teaching Excellence Award
- Departmental Teaching Excellence Award
- American Finance Association Travel Grant
- Finalist for Midwest Finance Association Best Doctoral Student Paper
Research Interests:
Theoretical Corporate Governance, Institutional Shareholders, Shareholder Voting, Applied Game Theory, ESG Investments
Biography:
Shaoting obtained Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Utah in 2021. As a game theorist, he conducts interdisciplinary research combining finance, political science, and mathematics. He develops theoretical models to study the applications of political arrangements (e.g., voting, campaign, activism, coalition-building.) in corporate governance.
He presented at regional and international conferences, such as the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics (SITE), Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Financial Management Association European Meeting, American Finance Association Annual Meeting, and Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting.
Shaoting seeks innovative systems of corporate governance to improve social welfare. His latest working paper is about the governance of environmental and socially responsible investments. Recently, his paper was published in the Journal of Financial Economics.
Publications:
On Academic Journal:
Voting and Trading: The Shareholder’s Dilemma, with Adam Meirowitz Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming
On Media:
1. Voting for Socially Responsible Corporate Policies, with Adam Meirowitz and Matthew Ringgenberg
- Columbia Law Schools Blog on Corporations and The Capital Markets, Columbia Law School, May 2022
2. The Shareholders Dilemma, with Adam Meirowitz
- Columbia Law Schools Blog on Corporations and The Capital Markets, Columbia Law School, October 2019