Rui Dai

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of Pennsylvania

Reliance on global outsourcing has become an economic imperative for many major corporations worldwide, but at the same time, it has brought substantial risks and complexities to these firms. This study employs novel international supply chain data to examine whether global outsourcing of goods or services shapes US corporate disclosure policies. O...

The trade tension between the U.S. and China since 2018 has caused a steady decoupling of the world's two largest economies. The pandemic outbreak in 2020 complicated this process and had numerous unanticipated repercussions. This paper investigates how U.S. importers reacted to the trade war and worldwide lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We...

Financial market participants frequently rely on numerous business relationships to make investment decisions. Investors can learn about potential risks and opportunities associated with other connected entities through these corporate connections. Nonetheless, human annotation of a large corpus to extract such relationships is highly time-consumin...

Form 10-K report is a financial report disclosing the annual financial state of a public company. It is an important evidence to conduct financial analysis, i.e., asset pricing, corporate finance. Practitioners and researchers are constantly designing algorithms to better conduct analysis on information in the Form 10-K report. The vast majority of...

Using numeric and textual data extracted from over 50,000 finance articles in SSRN during 2001–2019, we examine the relationship between measured qualities and a paper’s readership, eventual outlet, and impact. Conventionality (semantic similarity with existent research) helps boost readership and publication prospects. However, novelty in the form...

This paper exploits the complex information setting of customer-supplier links to assess revealed short-seller attention. Results suggest that short sellers are attentive to the news of corporate customers to short their suppliers’ stocks. This short selling behavior strengthens with co-attention, as proxied by same-day downloads of both customer a...

Exploiting the setting of firms that are unable to disclose timely financial reports and thus must file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the NT 10-K (Q) report, this study examines whether short sellers target firms with financial reporting weaknesses. We find that short interest increases in firms prior to the NT 10-K (Q) fil...

The multinational syndicated loan market has crossed the $7 trillion threshold. Prior literature argues that weak borrower country's creditor rights is the main limiting factor to cross‐border lending. We find that lender country's creditor rights can partly substitute for weak borrower creditor rights if a lender is from a better creditor rights c...

Form 10-Q, the quarterly financial statement, is one of the most crucial filings for US public firms to disclose their financial and other relevant business operation information. Due to the gigantic number of 10-Q filings prevailing in the market for each quarter and diverse variations in the implementation of format given company-specific nature,...

Global outsourcing has become an economic imperative for many major corporations worldwide, but at the same time, it has brought substantial risks and uncertainties to these firms. In this study, we examine whether global outsourcing of goods or services shapes U.S. corporate disclosure policies. Our main results indicate a negative relation betwee...

Corporate customers are an important stakeholder in global supply chains. We employ several unique international databases to test whether socially responsible corporate customers can infuse similar socially responsible business behavior in suppliers. Our findings suggest a unilateral effect on corporate social responsibility (CSR) only from custom...

This paper investigates trading patterns in target and acquirer firms prior to public announcement of M&A deals, a corporate event in which group based co-offence has been anecdotally documented. Our analysis differentiates whether such trading is primarily conducted by hedge funds with short-term investment horizons as opposed to other short horiz...

In an attempt to increase the competitiveness and the efficiency of electronic trading on the six US option exchanges, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued a new rule (the so called Penny-Pilot program) that required a significant reduction in the tick size of more than 370 stocks. One obvious consequence of this new rule wa...

This paper investigates recent allegations regarding the misuse of private insider information by hedge funds prior to the public announcement of M&A deals. We analyze this issue by using a unique and comprehensive data set which allows us to analyze the trading pattern of hedge funds around corporate mergers and acquisitions in both the equity and...