Christine Zhuowei Huang

Christine Zhuowei Huang, Zhuowei Huang, Christine Huang, finance PhD, UTD, UT Dallas, University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance
Naveen Jindal School of Management
The University of Texas at Dallas
zhuowei.huang@utdallas.edu


About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in finance at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Research Interests

Working Papers

  1. Green Neighbors, Greener Neighborhoods: Peer Effects in Residential Green Investments
    Abstract: Utilizing a nearest-neighbor research design, I find that households exposed to green neighbors within 0.1 miles are 1.6 times more likely to make their homes green within a year than unexposed households. The exposure also increases the likelihood of multi-property owners certifying their faraway secondary properties green, emphasizing that information from neighbors, not neighborhood characteristics alone, drives the effect. While higher green home prices, electricity savings, and regulatory incentives strengthen the peer effect, pro-environmental household preferences do not. An information-cost-based discrete choice model explains the findings and suggests that aligning green subsidies with peer effects can accelerate residential green investments.

    Upcoming Presentations: Seminar at San Francisco Fed, 12th ABFER Annual Conference (Poster)
    Awards: Semifinalist for 2024 FMA Annual Meeting Best Paper Awards, Best Paper Award - 14th Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference PhD Symposium
    Selected Presentations: European Winter Finance Conference (EWFC) 2025, New York Fed and NYU Summer Climate Finance Conference (Poster), 2025 Baruch-JFQA Climate Finance and Sustainability Conference (Poster), CEPR-ESSEC-Luxembourg Conference on Sustainable Financial Intermediation, 2nd Women in Central Banking Workshop at Dallas Fed (Poster), 3rd CEMLA/Dallas Fed/IBEFA Financial Stability Workshop, 2024 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making (Poster), AEA 2025 (Poster), FMA 2024, IWFSAS 2024 at UBC Sauder, 2024 CEMA Annual Conference at Boston University.

Work in Progress

  1. Do Debt Collection Restrictions Hurt Hospitals?
     [Draft Available Soon!]
    with Amit Kumar and Lynn Linghuan Wang
    Abstract: Tighter regulations on debt collections, though intended to protect consumers from predatory practices, may disrupt industries to which consumer debts are owed. Using a paired-county stacked difference-in-differences design, we show that hospitals in border counties of states tightening the regulations are adversely affected than those in border counties of neighboring states without such changes. Financial liabilities, bad debt write-offs, and borrowing costs of affected hospitals increase, whereas revenues and profitability fall. They respond by lowering employment, investment, and patient care. Moreover, they curtail charity care for uninsured patients, reducing access to healthcare for a population vulnerable to incurring medical debt.


Teaching

Instructor
FIN 3320 Business Finance - Summer 2023, Spring 2024

Awards and Fellowships

EFA Travel Grant, 2024
JSOM Dean's Excellence Scholarship for Current Students, University of Texas at Dallas, 2024–2025
Doctoral Student Scholarship, University of Texas at Dallas, 2019–2024
Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Dallas, 2020–2021

Contact

Address: 800 W Campbell Rd JSOM II 13.301, Richardson, TX 75080
Email: zhuowei.huang@utdallas.edu