Rate My Professor Qinghai Wang

Qinghai Wang serves as Professor of Finance and Richard T. Crotty Orange County Endowed Chair in Finance in the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida since June 2016. He previously held the position of Sheldon B. Lubar Professor of Finance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from August 2014 to June 2016, where he also served as Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2007. From 2007 to 2014, he was Associate Professor of Finance at the Georgia Institute of Technology, including as Mills B. Lane Term Professor from 2009 to 2012. Wang earned his Ph.D. in Finance from The Ohio State University in 2001, Master of Arts in Economics from Nankai University in 1991, and Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Shandong University in 1988.

His research focuses on finance, investments, corporate governance, institutional trading, and asset pricing. Notable publications include "Institutional Trading and the Turn-of-the-Year Effect" with Lilian Ng in the Journal of Financial Economics (2004), "Does Corporate Headquarters Location Matter for Stock Returns?" with Christo Pirinsky in the Journal of Finance (2006), "Allocation of Decision Rights and the Investment Strategy of Mutual Funds" with Nishant Dass and Vikram Nanda in the Journal of Financial Economics (2013), "Institutional Investment Constraints and Stock Prices" with Jay J. Cao and Bing Han in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2017), "Short Selling, Agency, and Corporate Investment" with Mahdi Nezafat and Tao Shen in Financial Management (2021), and forthcoming papers such as "The Geography of Information Acquisition" in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and "Geographic Clustering of Institutional Investors" in the Journal of Financial Economics. Wang has received the Research Incentive Award from UCF College of Business Administration in 2021, Best Paper Award from the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies in 2019 for "Insider Trading, Informativeness, and Price Efficiency Around the World," runner-up for the Coller Institute of Venture 2017 Venture Research Awards, BankScope Prize at the 24th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in 2011, PACAP Award for best paper in corporate finance at the Asian Finance Association international conference in 2009, and several other conference best paper awards. He serves as Editor of the China Accounting and Finance Review since 2014 and Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Finance since 2020.