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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

Going (more) public: ownership reform among Chinese listed Firms • 2011
Cultural aversion and economic exchange: Evidence from shocks to Sino-Japanese relations • 2011
Property Rights Protection, Information Acquisition, and Asset Prices: Theory and Evidence • 2011
Agency in Inefficient Bureaucracies:Evidence from Chinese Ownership Reform • 2011
Evidence on the existence and impact of corruption in state asset sales in China • 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
Trading favors within Chinese business groups • 2010
Profiting from government stakes in a command economy: Evidence from Chinese asset sales • 2010
When Managers Can't Commit: Capital Structure under Inalienable Managerial Entrenchment
Coinsurance within Business Groups: Evidence from Related Party Transactions in an Emerging Market
Does Market Transition Eclipse the Significance of Political Connections? A Longitudinal Study of Publicly Listed Firms in China