Zigan Wang

Dr. Zigan WANG received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and joined The University of Hong Kong as Assistant Professor of Finance in 2015. He finished his undergraduate study at Tsinghua University in 2009.

Academic & Professional Qualification

• Ph.D., Columbia University
• B.A., Tsinghua University

Research Interest

• Finance: foreign exchange, hedge fund, empirical corporate finance, banking, international finance
• Economics: environmental economics, political economics
• Accounting: tax avoidance, auditing quality, disclosure

Selected Publications

• “The Role of Financial Constraints in Firm Investment under Pollution Abatement Regulation,” (with Tri Vi Dang and Youan Wang), Forthcoming at Journal of Corporate Finance.
• “Estimation and Inference of Treatment Effects with L2-Boosting in High-Dimensional Settings,” (with Jannis Kueck, Ye Luo, and Martin Spindler), Forthcoming at Journal of Econometrics.
• “Corporate Political Connections and Favorable Environmental Regulatory Enforcement,” (with Amanda Heitz and Youan Wang), Forthcoming at Management Science.
• “Currency Volatility and Global Technological Innovation,” (with Po-Hsuan Hsu, Mark P. Taylor, and Qi Xu), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 137, July 2022, Article 103607.
• “The Real Effects of Exchange Rate Risk on Corporate Investment: International Evidence,” (with Mark P. Taylor and Qi Xu), Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 117, October 2021, Article 102432.
• “Real Effects of Share Repurchases Legalization on Corporate Behaviors,”
• (with Qie Ellie Yin and Luping Yu), Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 140(1), April 2021, pp. 197-219.
• “Bank Networks and Acquisitions,” (with Ross Levine and Chen Lin), Management Science, Vol. 66(11), November 2020, pp. 5216-5241.
• “Technical Trading: Is it still Beating the Foreign Exchange Market?” (with Po-Hsuan Hsu and Mark P. Taylor), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 102, September 2016, pp. 188-208.
• “Corporate Governance, Policies and Public Listing: The Case of Chinese State-owned Enterprises,” in S. Boubaker and D.K Nguyen (ed.), Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Markets Focus, World Scientific Publishing, 2014.