In her CV, this lady (with PhD in finance from UT Austin in 2011 https://business.smu.edu.sg/faculty/profile/5851/margaret-zhu) argues that she has two conditional acceptances at JF and RFS respectively. Both are single-authored publications.
“Real Effects of Corporate Hedging”, Journal of Finance, conditional accepted;
“Corporate Derivatives Hedging in the Past Two Decades”, Review of Financial Studies, conditional accepted;
However, I am 98% sure that this is a fraud. First, if you Google the titles of both papers, you will find nothing except her CV.
Second, from her SSRN author page https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=665744, you can find that the previous versions of both papers were written around 2011. They must be rejected by top journals at least five years ago since she submitted her tenure package in 2018 or 2019 in a Hong Kong school. Third, one of my friends told me that she faked this at least three years ago when she was on the job market.
My three reflections on this. First, some researchers in finance just lack basic moral values and honesty. Second, don’t trust those single-author conditional acceptances. They are just too good to be believed. Finally, I think a lot of insiders (e.g., her former colleagues and friends) knew this fraud. Why don’t they reveal this? They perhaps just lack of basic moral values and are selfish. They perhaps just don’t care about justice and fairness.