Name: Yi (Shirley) Shen, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor of Finance
Education: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell
M.S., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Case Western Reserve University
Office: 203 Carroll Hall
Phone: 803/323-2418
E-mail: sheny@winthrop.edu
Area(s): Corporate Finance, Labor & Finance, and Banking
Dr. Yi Shen is an Assistant Professor of Finance specializing in empirical corporate finance topics, including bank loan pricing, unemployment risk, corporate innovation, and product market competition. Dr. Shen’s research has been published in the Journal of Corporate Finance and Accounting and Finance. Her research won the Winthrop University College of Business Administration Springs Industries Research Excellence Award in 2023. Her paper "Labor Unemployment Insurance and R&D Productivity" was a Semifinalist for Best Paper Award at the 2019 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting. Prior to earning her Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts Lowell, she was a derivatives analyst at Morgan Stanley Baltimore office. She received her bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University with magna cum laude in 2013 and her master's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2014.
Selected Publications
Hasan, I., Shen, Y., Yuan, X., 2021. Local product market competition and bank loans. Journal of Corporate Finance 70, 102054.
Shen, Y., 2022. Labor unemployment insurance and bank loans. Journal of Corporate Finance 76, 102254.
Wang, G., Shen, Y., 2023. Did quantitative easing reduce the borrowing costs of firms? The risk-taking channel. Accounting and Finance 63, 507-536.
Selected Awards and Honors
Springs Global Industries Research Excellence Award (2023) – Winthrop University
Semifinalist for Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance (2019) – Financial Management Association 2019 Annual Meeting
Outstanding Doctoral Student Award (2019) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
Excellence in Teaching Award (2018) – University of Massachusetts Lowell
The Marvin J. Barloon Award for Outstanding Performance in Economics (2013) – Case Western Reserve University
Selected Conference Presentations
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, 2019
Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting, 2019
Northern Finance Association (NFA) Annual Meeting PhD Session, 2018
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, 2018
Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting, 2018
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, 2017
Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Annual Meeting, 2017
Last updated by rayj 08/14/2023