Wei Jiang

Vice Dean for Faculty and Research and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance Emory University, Goizueta Business School

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Biography

Wei Jiang earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2001. She is a Fellow and Board Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a Research Associate of the NBER (Law and Economics, and Corporate Finance). Jiang's main research interests lie in corporate governance, institutional investors, technology and financial markets. She has published extensively in top finance, economics, and law journals, and received numerous awards for research excellence. She served as Editor at Review of Financial Studies and Management Science. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2022, Jiang was the Arthur F. Bruns Professor of Free Competitive Enterprise at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, where she served as Vice Dean of Curriculum and Programs. Jiang is currently the President-elect of the American Finance Association and was previously the President of the Society of Financial Studies.

Education

University of Chicago

PhD

Economics

2001

Fudan University

MS & BA

Economics

1992

Areas of Expertise

Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Technology and Financial Markets
Law and Finance

Publications

Mapping US-China Technology Decoupling, Innovation, and Firm Performance

Management Science

2025

We develop measures of technology decoupling and dependence between the United States and China based on combined patent data. The first two decades of the century witnessed a steady increase in technology integration (or less decoupling), but China’s dependence on the United States increased (decreased) during the first (second) decade. Firms covered by China’s Strategic Emerging Industries policies became less decoupled with the United States, gained cash flows, and gained valuation, but they saw no improvement in either innovation output/quality or productivity. Post-U.S. sanctions, firms in sanctioned sectors and their downstream suffered in performance but also became less decoupled with the United States. However, firms in the upstream of the sanctioned sectors improved productivity and produced more high-quality innovations.

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From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The Art and AI of Stock Analyses

Journal of Financial Economics

2024

An AI analyst trained to digest corporate disclosures, industry trends, and macroeconomic indicators surpasses most analysts in stock return predictions. Nevertheless, humans win “Man vs. Machine” when institutional knowledge is crucial, e.g., involving intangible assets and financial distress. AI wins when information is transparent but voluminous. Humans provide significant incremental value in “Man + Machine,” which also substantially reduces extreme errors. Analysts catch up with machines after “alternative data” become available if their employers build AI capabilities. Documented synergies between humans and machines inform how humans can leverage their advantage for better adaptation to the growing AI prowess.

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Shareholder Monitoring Through Voting: New Evidence from Proxy Contest

Review of Financial Studies

2024

We present the first comprehensive study of mutual fund voting in proxy contests. Among contests where voting takes place, passive funds are 10 percentage points less likely than active funds to vote for dissidents. The gap shrinks significantly when accounting for votes withheld from management nominees, settled contests, and votes by non-“Big-Three” fund families. Passive and active funds are equally informed about firm fundamentals, although passive funds view contest-related SEC filings more often than active funds during contests, in absolute levels and incrementally relative to noncontest periods. We conclude that passive funds are engaged shareholders in high-stakes voting events.

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Disney, Bob Iger Defeat Activist Nelson Peltz in Shareholder Vote

WSJ  online

2024-04-03

Investors support company’s slate of board nominees; Peltz loses bid to become a director in win for the Disney CEO.

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