Rate My Professor Yinjie Shen

Dr. Shen's research spans critical areas in finance, including hedge fund activism, economic policy uncertainty, corporate social responsibility, creditor control rights and tax avoidance, whistleblowing effects on financial misstatements, green technology innovation, and regional economic disparities. His publications appear in leading journals such as Journal of Financial Stability, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Applied Economics, Sustainability, and Journal of Financial Markets. Key works include "Economic policy uncertainty and banks' loan pricing" (2019, cited extensively), "Access to Digital Financial Services and Green Technology Innovation" (2021), "Inclusive Green Growth and Regional Disparities: A Study Based on the Yangtze River Economic Belt" (2021), "Mergers and acquisitions with pledging shareholders" (2023), "Do Sell-Side Analysts Play a Role in Hedge Fund Activism Spillover Effects?" (2022), "Do creditor control rights impact corporate tax avoidance?" (2024), "The Peer Deterrent Effect of Whistleblowing on Financial Misstatement" (2024), "Geographic location and corporate social responsibility" (2024), and "An ETF-based measure of stock price fragility" (2025). Shen has presented on hedge fund activism at the Cornerstone Speaker Series in March 2023 and advised undergraduate research projects, such as "Do Hedge Fund Activists Prefer Local Firms?" in 2019.