Song Ma

Professor Ma’s main research interests are corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, and innovation economics. His current research agenda focuses on understanding economic frictions in the process of financing and organizing innovation and entrepreneurial activities, and how to mitigate those frictions through financial and organizational arrangements. He also studies how entrepreneurship contributes to economic growth and the underlying mechanism.  Dr. Ma received his PhD in Finance from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and his BA in Economics from Zhejiang University.

Education

• PhD , Duke University, 2016
• BA , Zhejiang University, 2010

Expertise

• Antitrust & Competition Policy
• Bankruptcy
• Big Data
• Corporate Finance
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Startups
• Venture Capital

Research Interests

Primary: Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Innovation, Big Data Secondary: Behavioral Finance, Education, Law and Economics, Antitrust

Working Papers

• “Killer Acquisitions,” with Colleen Cunningham and Florian Ederer, 2019, Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
• Charles River Associates Award for the Best Paper on Corporate Finance, WFA
• Mark A. Satterthwaite Award for Outstanding Research in Healthcare Markets
• Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award, AOM Strategic Management
• Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper
• “Payout Taxation and Corporate Investment: The Agency Channel,” 2019, Revise and Resubmit, Review of Finance
• “Selling Innovation in Bankruptcy,” with Joy Tianjiao Tong and Wei Wang, 2019
• Insight Grants, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada
• “Young Firms, Old Capital,” with Justin Murfin and Ryan Pratt, 2020
• “Human Interactions and Financial Investment: A Video-Based Approach,” with Allen Hu, 2020
• “Private Equity and Financial Stability: Evidence from Failed Bank Resolution in the Crisis,” with Emily Johnston-Ross and Manju Puri, 2020

Preliminary

• “The Education-Innovation Gap,” with Barbara Biasi, 2019