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Jessie Wang
Biography:
Jessie Jiaxu Wang is an assistant professor of finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She completed her doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University and also holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Professor Wang's research expertise covers banking, networks, labor and finance, and asset pricing. Her research papers have been selected by top conferences and published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, and Management Science. She has also received several best paper awards as well as the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory.
Education:
- Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University 2015
- B.S. Tsinghua University, China 2009
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Research Interests:
- Banking
- Labor and Finance
Publications:
- "Bank Networks and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the National Banking Acts," with Mark Paddrik and Haelim Park, 2019, American Economic Review, 109 (9): 3125-61
- “A Labor Capital Asset Pricing Model,” with Lars-Alexander Kuehn and Mikhail Simutin, 2017, Journal of Finance, 72 (5), 2131--2178
- “Taxing Atlas: Executive Compensation, Firm Size and Their Impact on Optimal Top Income Tax Rates,” with Laurence Ales and A. Andrés Bellofatto, 2017, Review of Economic Dynamics, 26, 62--90
- "A Theory of Collateral Requirements for Central Counterparties," with Agostino Capponi and Hongzhong Zhang, forthcoming, Management Science
Research Activity:
- "Access to Finance and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Antebellum America," with Yifei Mao, Revise and resubmit at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
- "Workplace Automation and Corporate Financial Policy," with Thomas Bates and Fangfang Du
- "It's Not Who You Know - It's Who Knows You: Employee Social Capital and Firm Performance," with DuckKi Cho, Lyungmae Choi, and Michael Hertzel,
- “Distress Dispersion and Systemic Risk in Networks"
- “Asset Pricing and Dynamic Labor Contracts”
| Fall 2021 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| FIN 361 | Advanced Managerial Finance |
| Fall 2020 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| FIN 361 | Advanced Managerial Finance |
| Fall 2019 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| FIN 361 | Advanced Managerial Finance |
| Fall 2018 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| FIN 361 | Advanced Managerial Finance |
Honors / Awards:
- Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory, 2015
- American Economic Association CSWEP Summer Fellow, 2013
- Best Paper Award at the ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference, 2013
- WRDS Award for an Outstanding Paper in Asset Pricing Research, 2013
- William L. Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009-2012
Work History:
Arizona State University, 2015-present.
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