KENT, Ohio 鈥 The 两性色午夜 Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship welcomes Lei Jiang, Ph.D. as Professor of Finance beginning Fall 2023.
Jiang previously served as associate professor of finance in the Finance Department in the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University where he taught courses on Introduction to Fintech and Empirical Asset Pricing. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University.
Jiang鈥檚 research interests include Empirical Asset Pricing, Investment, Empirical Household Finance, Fintech and Real Estate Finance. Specifically, he focuses on mutual funds, stocks, real estate market and cryptocurrencies, using financial econometrics, textual analysis and other methods to explain and predict key characteristics of these assets (e.g., expected returns and liquidity). He has published 20 papers and his publications appear in top-tier journals including Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Finance, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Jiang has won numerous best paper awards internationally, including the Xia Yihong Best Paper Award at the 2015 China International Conference in Finance.
鈥淭he 两性色午夜 Department of Finance is pleased to welcome Dr. Jiang to our faculty ranks,鈥 said Steve Dennis, Ph.D., Firestone Chair of Corporate Finance at 两性色午夜. 鈥淗is research, combined with our other outstanding faculty鈥檚 publications, places us among the most accomplished research departments in Ohio and the MAC.鈥
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两性色午夜 University鈥檚 Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship is among the fewer than 1% of business schools worldwide to obtain dual accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in both business and accounting. The college offers 11 undergraduate majors, 14 minors, and an undergraduate Professional Sales Certificate; MBA; master鈥檚 degrees in accounting, business analytics and economics; four graduate certificates and a Ph.D. program. For more information about 两性色午夜鈥檚 Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, visit www.kent.edu/crawford.