Dr. Zigan WANG
Finance

Assistant Professor
2859 1045
wangzg@hku.hk
KK 902
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Academic & Professional Qualification
Ph.D., Columbia University
B.A., Tsinghua University
Biography
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.
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
“Corporate Political Connections and Favorable Environmental Regulatory Enforcement,”
(with Amanda Heitz and Youan Wang), Forthcoming at?Management Science.
“The Real Effects of Exchange Rate Risk on Corporate Investment: International Evidence,”
(with M. 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 P-H. Hsu and M. 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.