Biography
Nhan Le is a fifth year doctoral candidate in Finance. Nhan holds a M.A degree in Financial Management from the University of Queensland, Australia and a B.A in Finance from the University of Economics, Vietnam. Before joining the PhD program, Nhan was an instructor and training manager at a corporate training center at VCCI (Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry). Prior to that, Nhan worked as an investment officer at Mekong Capital, a leading private equity firm in Vietnam, and a senior auditor at Ernst & Young Vietnam.
Her main research interest is in the area of empirical corporate finance and investment. Nhan’s current working papers focus on the causes and effects of firms’ cash holdings policies. In the job market paper, she investigates the impact of large cash holdings on managers’ behavior when firms run into difficulty. In another working paper that Nhan coauthors with Professor Mattias Nilsson, they examine the spillover effects of industry peers’ bankruptcy filings on firms’ cash holding policy.
