Meng Gao

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
• Ph.D., Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• B.S., Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Corporate governance, executive compensation, insider trading, financial analysts, and informed trading

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Connecticut, 2020–Present

WORKING PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Get the Money Somehow: The Effect of Missing Performance Goals on Insider Trading, 2020,
• Informing the Market: The Effect of Modern Information Technologies on Information Production, 2020, Review of Financial Studies 33, 1367–1411 [Editor’s Choice, lead article].
• Capitalizing on Capitol Hill: Informed Trading by Hedge Fund Managers, 2016, with Jiekun Huang, Journal of Financial Economics 121, 521–545.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2019 AFA Student Travel Grant
• 2017-18 Corzine Fellowship
• 2017-2018 Paul M. Van Arsdell Sr. Teaching Award
• Appeared on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, Summer 2017