Tao Shu


Assistant Professor of Finance

Department of Banking and Finance

Terry College of Business,

University of Georgia,

Athens, GA 30602     

taoshu@terry.uga.edu 

Phone: (706)542-3649

 

 

 

Academic Appointment

2007-           Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

                    Assistant Professor of Finance

 

 

Education

2003-2007   McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

                    Ph.D. in Finance, 2007

 

2001-2003   Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin

                    M.S. in Statistics, 2003

 

1993-1997   Department of Finance, Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics  (China)

                    B.E. in Finance, 1997

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Publications

Default Risk, Shareholder Advantage, and Stock Returns, with Lorenzo Garlappi, and Hong Yan.

Review of Financial Studies, November 2008, 21, 2743-2778.

 

Who Drove and Burst the Tech Bubble? with John Griffin, Jeffery Harris, and Selim Topaloglu

Journal of Finance, August 2011, 66, 1251-1290.

 

Examining the Dark Side of Financial Markets: Do Institutions Trade on Information from Investment Bank Connections?  with John Griffin and Selim Topaloglu, 2012 

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming.

 

Local Religious Beliefs and Mutual Fund Risk-Taking Behaviors,  with Johan Sulaeman and P. Eric Yeung, 2012 

Management Science, Forthcoming.

 

 

 

Working Papers  

 

 

Can Earnings Management Ease Financial Constraints? Evidence from Earnings Management Prior to Investment, with James Linck and Jeffry Netter, 2011 

Revise for 2nd round submission to Accounting Review.

 

Long-term Institutional Trading and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, 2011

Revise for 2nd round submission to Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

 

Moderated Confidence and Under- and Overreactions in the Stock Markets, with Santhosh Ramalingegowda and P. Eric Yeung, 2011 

 

Do Local Investors Know More? A Direct Examination of Individual Investors’ Information Set, with Robert Giannini, 2011

 

Does Positive-Feedback Trading by Institutions Contribute to Stock Return Momentum? 2010 

 

 

Honors:

Terry Sanford Research Award, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, 2012

Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Georgia, 2012

Terry Sanford Research Award, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, 2010, 2011

Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Georgia, 2009

Houston Endowment President's Excellence Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 2006.

Dean’s Fellowship, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 2005. 

Bonham Fund Fellowship, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 2005.

Dean's Fellowship, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 2004

University Pre-emptive Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2003.