Prof. Wenlan QIAN
Finance

Professor
3917 5846
wenlan.qian@hku.hk
KK 1314
https://sites.google.com/site/wenlanqian/


Academic & Professional Qualification
Ph.D., Business Administration (Finance and Real Estate), Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
B.A., Economics (with honors), Shanghai International Studies University
Biography
Wenlan Qian is Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, she was Associate Professor and Dean’s Chair in the Department of Finance at the NUS Business School, and Deputy Director of Research at the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, Luohan Academcy at Alibaba Group, and the Homer Hoyt Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. Currently, Wenlan Qian is an editor of Real Estate Economics and associate editor of Financial Management.
Wenlan Qian’s main research interests are household finance, real estate, digitization and FinTech, short sellers, financial intermediaries. She is the recipient of multiple prestigious external grants and has won the best paper awards at leading international conferences in finance and real estate. Her research is accepted for publication at top academic journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Management Science, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance.
Wenlan Qian holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Research Interest
Household Finance
Real Estate
Digitization and FinTech
Short Sellers
Financial Intermediaries
Selected Publications
Li, T., W. Qian, W. A. Xiong, and X. Zou, 2021, “Employee Output Response to Stock Market Wealth Shocks”, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming
Chen, H., W. Qian, and Q. Wen, 2021, “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Consumption: Learning from High Frequency Transaction Data”, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 111, 307-311
Agarwal, S., W. Qian, and X. Zou, 2021, “Thy Neighbor’s Misfortune: Peer Effect on Consumption”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(2), 1-25
Agarwal, S., W. Qian, T.F. Sing, and P.L. Tan, 2021, “Fortunes of Dragons: Cohort Size Effects on Life Outcomes”, Population Studies, 1-17
Agarwal, S., W. Qian, and X. Zou, 2020, “Disaggregated Sales and Stock Returns”, Management Science, forthcoming
Cheng, J., W. Qian, and D. Reeb, 2020, “The Ownership Complaint Gap: Mutual vs. Stock Intermediaries”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 55(5), 1685-1715
Agarwal, S., W. Qian, A. Seru, and J. Zhang, 2020, “Disguised Corruption: Evidence from Consumer Credit in China”, Journal of Financial Economics, 137(2), 430-450
Agarwal, S., J. Pan, and W. Qian, 2020, “The Age of Decision: Pension Savings Withdrawal and Consumption and Debt Responses”, Management Science, 66(1), 3254-3270
Agarwal, S., W. Qian, B. Yeung, and X. Zou, 2019, “Mobile Wallet and Entrepreneurial Growth”, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 109,48-53
Agarwal, S. and W. Qian, 2017, “Access to Home Equity and Consumption: Evidence from a Policy Experiment”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(1), 40-52
Ljungqvist, A. and W. Qian, 2016, “How Constraining are Limits to Arbitrage?”, Review of Financial Studies, 29(8), 1975-2028
Agarwal, S., W. Qian, D. Reeb, and T. F. Sing, 2016, “Playing the Boys Game: Golf Buddies and Board Diversity”, American Economic Review Paper and Proceedings, 106(5), 272-276
Fu, Y., W. Qian, and B. Yeung, 2016, “Speculative Investors and Transaction Tax: Evidence from the Housing Market”, Management Science, 62(11), 3254–3270
Agarwal, S., Y. Deng, C. Luo, and W. Qian, 2016, “The Hidden Peril: The Role of the Condominium Loan Market in the Recent Financial Crisis”, Review of Finance, 20(2), 467－500
Massa, M., W. Qian, W. Xu, and H. Zhang, 2015, “Competition of the Informed: Does the Presence of Short Sellers Affect Insider Selling?”, Journal of Financial Economics, 118(2), 268-288
Agarwal, S., J. Pan, and W. Qian, 2015, “The Composition Effect of Consumption around Retirement: Evidence from Singapore”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 105(5), 426-431
Agarwal, S. and W. Qian, 2014, “Consumption and Debt Response to Unanticipated Income Shocks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Singapore”, American Economic Review, 104(12), 4205-4230
Service to the University/ Community
Professional Positions
Board, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, 2018–2020
Expert Panel, Social Science and Humanities Research, Social Science Research Council, Ministry of Education, Singapore, 2020-2022
Fellow, Luohan Academy, Alibaba Group, 2020-
Fellow, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, 2017-
Fellow, Homer Hoyt Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics, 2016–
Editorial Board
Editor, Real Estate Economics, 2019-
Associate Editor, Financial Management, 2016 –
Associate Editor, International Real Estate Review, 2020 –
Associate Editor, Real Estate Economics, 2015 – 2019