Jessie Wang

Asst Professor, W. P. Carey Finance

Mail code: 3906

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

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 Website URL

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1768276

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B_erTcwAAAAJ&hl=en

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”

Courses

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance

2020 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance

2019 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance

2018 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance
FIN 361	Advanced Managerial Finance
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.

Expertise Areas

Banking

Labor Economics

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