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Yongxiang Wang
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-7650
yongxiaw@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, Columbia University
Personal Website: 
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~yongxiaw/index.htm

Overview

Yongxiang Wang is a financial economist whose research focuses on corporate governance and corruption, particularly in China and other developing economies. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics and American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.

Research

Do Politically Connected Firms Engage More or Less in Corporate Philanthropy? Evidence from Public and Private Firms in China • 2013
Cultural aversion and economic exchange: Evidence from shocks to Sino-Japanese relations • 2012
Rent-seeking in Collective Action • 2012
The Unsafe Side of Chinese Crony Capitalism • 2012
Do Politically Connected Firms Engage More or Less in Corporate Philanthropy? Evidence from Public and Private Firms in China • 2012
Agency in Inefficient Bureaucracies:Evidence from Chinese Ownership Reform • 2012
Corruption in Chinese privatizations • 2012
Coinsurance within Business Groups: Evidence from Related Party Transactions in an Emerging Market • 2012
Value Creation and Value Capture in Corporate Governance: Using the Value-Based Approach to Analyze an Ownership Reform of China?s Listed Firms • 2012
The mortality cost of political connections • 2012
Migration, Insurance and Credit: Evidence from rural China • 2012
The Effect of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment in China • 2012
Estimating the value of connections to Vice-President Cheney • 2012
When Are Strong Firms More Likely to Pursue Political Strategies? Evidence from Public and Private Firms in China • 2012
Does Market Transition Eclipse the Significance of Political Connections? A Longitudinal Study of Publicly Listed Firms in China • 2012
The Effect of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment in China • 2012
Going (more) public: ownership reform among Chinese listed Firms • 2011
Property Rights Protection, Information Acquisition, and Asset Prices: Theory and Evidence • 2011
Rent-seeking by mutual fund managers: Evidence from equity contract renegotiations • 2011
Coinsurance within Business Groups: Evidence from Related Party Transactions in an Emerging Market • 2011
Does Market Transition Eclipse the Significance of Political Connections? A Longitudinal Study of Publicly Listed Firms in China • 2011
When Managers Can't Commit: Capital Structure under Inalienable Managerial Entrenchment • 2011
Trading favors within Chinese business groups • 2010
Profiting from government stakes in a command economy: Evidence from Chinese asset sales • 2010