Sanford R. Robertson Professorship, University of Michigan, 2007-2008.
NTT Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2006-2007.
Nomination for Ph.D. Teaching Excellence Award, University of Michigan, 2006.
Q-Group Research Grant, 2004.
Best Student Paper Award, Eastern Finance Association, 1997.
Trefftz Award for the Best Student Paper, Western Finance Association, 1996.
Sterling Prize Fellowship, Yale University, 1991-1993.
Yale University Fellowships, 1991-1996.
Return Dynamics with Lévy Jumps: Evidence from Stock and Option Prices (with M. Wells and L. Yu),Mathematical Financeforthcoming.
Investing in Talents: Manager Characteristics and Hedge Fund Performances (with R. Zhao and X. Zhang),Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysisforthcoming.
Short Rate Dynamics and Regime Shifts (with Y. Xu),International Review of Financeforthcoming.
Evaluating Asset Pricing Models Using the Second Hansen-Jagannathan Distance (with Y. Xu and X. Zhang),Journal of Financial Economicsforthcoming.
Nonparametric Estimation of State-Price Densities Implicit in Interest Rate Cap Prices (with F. Zhao),Review of Financial Studiesforthcoming.
Reduced-Form Valuation of Callable Corporate Bonds: Theory and Evidence (with R. Jarrow, S. Liu, and C. Wu),Journal of Financial Economicsforthcoming.
Are Liquidity and Information Risks Priced in the Treasury Bond Market? (with Y. He, J. Wang, and C. Wu),Journal of Financeforthcoming.
A Tale of Two Yield Curves: Modeling the Joint Term Structure of Dollar and Euro Interest Rates (with A. Egorov and D. Ng)Journal of Econometricsforthcoming.
A Bayesian Analysis of Return Dynamics with Lévy Jumps (with M. Wells and L. Yu),Review of Financial Studies21, 2345-2378, 2008.
Can the Random Walk Model be Beaten in Out-of-Sample Density Forecasts: Evidence from Intraday Foreign Exchange Rates (with Y. Hong and F. Zhao),Journal of Econometrics141, 736-776, 2007.
Interest Rate Caps "Smile" Too! But Can the LIBOR Market Models Capture Smile? (with R. Jarrow and F. Zhao),Journal of Finance62, 345-382, 2007.
Validating Forecasts of the Joint Probability Density of Bond Yields: Can Affine Models Beat Random Walk? (with A. Egorov and Y. Hong),Journal of Econometrics135, 255-284, 2006.
Unspanned Stochastic Volatility: Evidence from Hedging Interest Rate Derivatives (with F. Zhao),Journal of Finance61, 341-378, 2006.
Is Investor Misreaction Economically Significant? Evidence from Short- and Long-Term S&P 500 Index Options (with C. Cao and F. Yu),Journal of Futures Markets25, 717-752, 2005.
Nonparametric Specification Testing for Continuous-Time Models with Applications to Term Structure of Interest Rates (with Y. Hong),Review of Financial Studies18, 37-84, 2005.
Out-of-Sample Performance of Discrete-Time Spot Interest Rate Models (with Y. Hong and F. Zhao),Journal of Business and Economic Statistics22, 457-473, 2004.
Regulation FD and Earnings Information: Market, Analyst, and Corporate Responses (with W. Bailey, C. Mao, and R. Zhong),Journal of Finance58, 2489-2516, 2003.
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Time-Inhomogeneous Diffusions (with A. Egorov and Y. Xu),Journal of Econometrics114, 107-139, 2003.
Corporate Use of Interest Rate Swaps: Theory and Evidence (with C. Mao),Journal of Banking and Finance27, 1511-1538, 2003.
Survival Bias and the Equity Premium Puzzle (with Y. Xu),Journal of Finance57, 1981-1996, 2002.
Pricing of Swaps with Default Risk,Review of Derivatives Research2, 231-250, 1998.