Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance from Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis.

Primary research interests: FinTech, Machine Learning in Finance, Empirical Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediaries

Contact Information

UC Davis Graduate School of Management
540 Alumni Ln, Davis, CA 95616
Email: kkeyang@ucdavis.edu

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Research

Papers

1. Trust as an Entry Barrier: Evidence from FinTech Adoption

• 2025, Journal of Financial Economics

2. Behavioral Machine Learning? Computer Predictions of Corporate Earnings also Overreact with Murray Z. Frank and Jing Gao

• Media Coverage: Financial Times

3. Decoding Sustainable Investment Strategies: Bridging Intentions and Outcomes with Ayako Yasuda

• Future Conferences: AFA 2026

4. The George Floyd Event and Corporate Attention to DEI with Jonathan M. Karpoff, Ruoxi Tian, and Tracy Wang

5. Diverging Paths: Productivity and the Financing Choices of Small Versus Large Firms] with Murray Z. Frank

• Future Conferences: AFA 2026

6. The Ex Ante Effect of Bankruptcy Law: Evidence from Chapter 12 with Jacelly Cespedes and Richard T. Thakor

7. Does Finance Flow to High Productivity Firms? with Murray Z. Frank

Working in Progress

8. Responsible ClimateTech with Sean Cao, Ling Xue, and Junyoung Park

9. Trust, FinTech, and Racial Barriers in Lending