Working Papers:

• Personal Income Taxes and Small Business Lending (available at SSRN)

• Labor Turnover and Bank Risk (with Lars Norden and Bernardus Van Doornik, available at the Working Paper Series of the Central Bank of Brazil and SSRN soon)

• Bank’s Balance Sheet Management as a Bargaining Tool: Evidence from Labor Strikes (with Patrick Behr and Sylvester Adasi Manu, available at SSRN)

Journal Articles:

• [2] Norden, L., Mesquita, D., and Wang, W., 2021. COVID-19, Policy Interventions and Credit: The Brazilian Experience. Journal of Financial Intermediation 48, 100933. [Elsevier] [Data Available Upon Request]

• [1] Behr, P., and Wang, W., 2020. The (un)intended Effects of Government Bailouts: the Impact of TARP on the Interbank Market and Bank Risk-taking. Journal of Banking & Finance 116 (C), 105820. [Elsevier] [Data Available Upon Request]

Funding and Grants:

• 2022-2023 School Research Grants (SRGs) from Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration, Hong Kong Metropolitan University as the Principal Investigator (PI)

Project: “A Comparison between Stochastic Volatility Skewness and Constant Volatility Skewness: a Preliminary Study for the Preparation of a FDS Grant Application” with Prof. FUNG Joseph K.W. and Prof. CAO Jay Jie

Grant amount: HK$38,400.00

• 2017-2022 Research Grant, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brazil

Conference and Seminar Presentations:

2022

• Research Seminar at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), December 2022. “Labor turnover and bank risk”. (scheduled, presented by co-author)

• The CEMLA / Dallas Fed Financial Stability Workshop at Mexico City, December 2022. “Labor turnover and bank risk”. (scheduled, presented by co-author)

• The 2022 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, October 2022. “Labor turnover and bank risk”. (scheduled, presented by co-author)

• The 2022 Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meeting, October 2022. “Labor turnover and bank risk”. (scheduled, presented by co-author)

• Seminar of the Research Department (Depep) at the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB), Brasília-DF, Brazil, August 2022. “Labor turnover and bank risk”.

• The XXII Brazilian Finance Conference (EBFin), Vitória ES, Brazil, July 2022. “Labor turnover and bank risk” & “Personal Income Taxes and Small Business Lending”.

• Research Seminar at SKEMA Business School in Sophia-Antipolis and University of Hamburg in Germany, June 2022. “Labor turnover and bank risk”. (presented by co-author)

• The 2022 American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting - Poster Session, Boston, MA USA, January 2022. “COVID-19, Policy Interventions and Credit: The Brazilian Experience”.

2021

• The XXI Brazilian Finance Conference (EBFin, Virtual), Brazil, July 2021. “COVID-19, Policy Interventions and Credit: The Brazilian Experience”.

• Brown Bag Seminar, FGV EBAPE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2021. “Personal Income Taxes and Small Business Lending”.

2020

• Graduate Seminar, FGV EBAPE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2020. “Banks’ Balance Sheet Management as a Bargaining Tool: Evidence from Union Strikes”.

2019

• The First Conference on Financial Stability and Sustainability organized by the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima of Peru, 2019. “The (un)intended Effects of Government Bailouts: the Impact of TARP on the Interbank Market and Bank Risk-taking”. (presented by co-author)

• Research Seminar in University of Ulm, Germany, 2019. “The (un)desired Effects of Government Bailouts: the Impact of TARP on the Interbank Market and Bank Risk-taking”. (presented by co-author)

2018

• 4th Conference on Banking Development, Stability and Sustainability, November 16, 2018 in Santiago, Chile. “The (un)desired Effects of Government Bailouts: the Impact of TARP on the Interbank Market and Bank Risk-taking”. (presented by co-author)

• Brown Bag Seminar, FGV EBAPE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 2018. “Do bailouts make banks “too interconnected to fail”?: the effects of TARP on the interbank market and bank risk-taking”.