Pitching Research Evolution: An Illustrative Example on the Topic of 'Innovation and Financial Dependence'

21 Pages Posted: 9 May 2016

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Robert W. Faff

University of Queensland; Bond University

Keith Godfrey

The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance

Jie Teng

Fudan University - Department of Finance

Date Written: May 7, 2016

Abstract

As a visiting exchange student to the University of Queensland from China, Jie Teng, approached the 1st author inquiring about opportunities for research projects. Recognizing that the student had only limited exposure to research and an unknown appreciation of what it entails, the mentor devised a program of incremental “discovery” and learning, based on Faff’s (2015, 2016) “pitching research” template tool. Under close guidance, Jie was asked to choose a recent academic paper of interest to him and then to reverse engineer a “pitch” for that chosen paper. The target for this exercise was Acharya and Xu (2013, NBER) (now a forthcoming paper in Journal of Financial Economics, Acharya and Xu 2016): a paper examining the topic of “Innovation and Financial Dependence”. The pitching process was completed, in 10 small stages, over a period of about 5 weeks. The current paper provides a narrative of this research journey aimed at helping other research mentors facing similar situations.

Keywords: Pitching Research; Evolving Pitch; Research Journey; Financial Dependence

JEL Classification: G31; G32

Suggested Citation

Faff, Robert W. and Godfrey, Keith and Teng, Jie, Pitching Research Evolution: An Illustrative Example on the Topic of 'Innovation and Financial Dependence' (May 7, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2776959 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2776959

Robert W. Faff (Contact Author)

University of Queensland ( email )

St Lucia
Brisbane, Queensland 4072
Australia

Bond University ( email )

Gold Coast, QLD 4229
Australia

Keith Godfrey

The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance ( email )

School of Business
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, Western Australia 6009
Australia
+61864885839 (Phone)

Jie Teng

Fudan University - Department of Finance ( email )

Shanghai, 200433
China

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