Bauer

Zack Liu

Zack Liu

Associate Professor of Finance
C.T. Bauer College of Business
University of Houston
Contact Information
E-mail: zliu@bauer.uh.edu

Publications

Corporate Investment and Innovation in the Presence of Competitor Constraints, with William Grieser (SSRN)
Review of Financial Studies, Volume 32, Issue 11, November 2019, Pages 4271 -- 4303.

Count (and Count-Like) Data in Finance, with Jonathan Cohn and Malcolm Wardlaw (SSRN)
Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 146, Issue 2, November 2022, Pages 529 -- 551.
-- 2021 FRA Conference BlackRock Best Paper Award

Access to Capital and Investment Composition: Evidence from Fracking in North Dakota, with Avishai Schiff and Nathan Swem (SSRN)
Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 161, April 2024, Article 107116.

Economic Magnitudes Within Reason, with Adam Winegar (SSRN)
Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 91, April 2025, Article 102707.
-- Special Issue: Statistically Non-significant Results in Financial Economics

The Effects of House Prices and Home Equity Extraction on Career Outcomes, with Jacelly Cespedes and Carlos Parra (SSRN)
Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2026, Pages 1–45.
-- Editor's Choice

Past is Prologue: Inference from the Cross Section of Returns Around an Event, with Jonathan Cohn, Travis Johnson, and Malcolm Wardlaw
Journal of Financial Economics, Accepted.


Working Papers

How Do Startup Patent Acquisitions Affect Inventor Productivity?, with Joan Farre-Mensa and Jordan Nickerson

Short-Term Lending and Usury Limits: Consumer Impact and Market Adaptation, with Mark Jansen, Ryan Voges, and Peter Won

Intellectual Property Allocation and Firm Investments in Innovation


Works in Progress

The Effects of Firm Ownership Structure on Firm Performance: A Labor Market Channel, with Adam Winegar (CCGR GRANT - 250,000 NOK)