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

Working Papers

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

• Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics
• Presented at CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2020, China Fintech Research Conference 2021, 4th Annual Dauphine Finance Ph.D. Workshop, BFWG Conference 2021, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Sixth Annual Conference 2021, 2nd PhD Student Symposium at UT Austin, 2021 FMA Annual Meeting, 2022 AFA Poster, Syracuse, OSU, SMU, Santa Clara, CUHK, NYU Shanghai, UC Davis, SAIF, AFR International Conference, Nanjing University, Macquarie Business School
• 2021 Financial Management Association Best Paper Award Semifinalist

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

• Media Coverage: Financial Times
• Presented at JFDS Conference 2023, 2023 Capital Market Research in the Era of AI Conference, 2023 Cardiff Fintech Conference, 2023 FMA, KAIST AI Social Science BootCamp 2023

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

• Presented at University of Iowa, China International Conference in Finance, London Business School Summer Finance Symposium, Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference, CSOM Summer Applied Economics Workshop, and the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Financial Services at Rensselaer.

4. Identifying Funds’ Sustainability Goals with AI: Financial, Categorical Morality, and Impact with Ayako Yasuda

• Presented at UC Davis, Minnesota Family and Friends Conference

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

Working in Progress

6. The George Floyd Event and Corporate Attention to DEI Tracy Wang and Ruoxi Tian

7. Predicting Firm Profits: From Fama-MacBeth to Gradient Boosting with Murray Z. Frank

8. FinTech and Racial Barriers in Small Business Lending

• Coverage: FinReg Blog