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Peer-reviewed Publications in Economics and Finance Journals
1. “Political Connections, Financial Constraints, and Corporate Taxation” (with Ke Na; Terry Shevlin; Youan Wang)
Forthcoming,Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (ABS 4, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
2. “On the Profitability of Influential Carry Trades Strategies: Data Snooping Bias and Post-Publication Performance” (with Yan Li, Po-Hsuan Hsu and Mark P. Taylor) Forthcoming, Journal of Empirical Finance. (ABS 3, ABDC A)
3. “The Power of the People: Labor Unions and Corporate Social Responsibility” (with Amanda Heitz and Youan Wang)
Review of Finance, 28, no. 6 (2024): 1833-1879 (ABS 4, ABDC A*)
4. “Do Share Repurchases Facilitate Movement Towards Target Capital Structure? International Evidence” (with Qie Yin and Luping Yu)
Journal of Empirical Finance, 77 (2024): 101498. (ABS 3, ABDC A)
5. “Media Sentiment and Currency Reversals” (with Ilias Filippou and Mark P. Taylor)
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 59, no. 3 (2024): 1401-1429 (ABS 4, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
6. “The Out-of-Sample Performance of Carry Trades” (with Po-Hsuan Hsu, Yan Li, and Mark P. Taylor)
Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 143, May 2024, 103042. (ABS 3, ABDC A)
7. “Estimation and Inference of Treatment Effects with L2-Boosting in High-Dimensional Settings” (with Jannis Kueck, Ye Luo and Martin Spindler)
Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 234(2), June 2023, pp. 714-731. (ABS 4, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
8. “Corporate Political Connections and Favorable Environmental Regulatory Enforcement” (with Amanda Heitz and Youan Wang)
Management Science, Vol. 69(12), December 2023, pp. 7838-7859. (ABS 4*, UTD24, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
9. “The Role of Financial Constraints in Firm Investment Under Pollution Abatement Regulation” (with Tri Vi Dang and Youan Wang)
Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 76, October 2022, 102252. (ABS 4, ABDC A*)
10. “Currency Volatility and Global Technological Innovation” (with Po-Hsuan Hsu, Mark P. Taylor and Qi Xu)
Journal of International Economics, Vol. 137, July 2022, 103607. (ABS 4, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
11. “The Real Effects of Exchange Rate Risk on Corporate Investment: International Evidence” (with Mark P. Taylor and Qi Xu)
Journal of International Money and Finance, October 2021, Vol. 117. (ABS 3, ABDC A)
Media Coverage: Mingpao Daily (Finance, Education), Hong Kong Commercial Daily
12. “Real Effects of Share Repurchases Legalization on Corporate Behaviors” (with Qie Yin and Luping Yu)
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 140(1), April 2021, pp. 197-219. (ABS 4*, UTD24, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
Reprint: Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance
13. “Bank Networks and Acquisitions” (with Ross Levine and Chen Lin)
Management Science, Vol. 66(11), November 2020, pp. 5216-5241. (ABS 4*, UTD24, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
Media Coverage: Vox EU, HKU Bulletin
14. “Technical Trading: Is it still Beating the Foreign Exchange Market?” (with Po-Hsuan Hsu and Mark P. Taylor)
Journal of International Economics, Vol. 102, September 2016, pp. 188-208. (ABS 4, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
Peer-reviewed Publications in Top Computer Science Conferences
(CCF: China Computer Federation; * Corresponding Author)
15. Yang Li, Siqi Ping, Xiyu Chen, Xiaojian Qi, Zigan Wang, Ye Luo, Xiaowei Zhang, AgentGit: A Version Control Framework for Reliable and Scalable LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems AAAI 2026 Workshop WMAC
16. Zongsheng Cao, Anran Liu, Yangfan He, Jing Li, Bo Zhang, and Zigan Wang*, ViG-RAG: Video-aware Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Temporal and Semantic Hybrid Reasoning AAAI 2026 (CCF-A)
17. Jing Li, Zigan Wang, and Jinliang Li, AdvDenoise: Fast Generation Framework of Universal and Robust Adversarial Patches Using Denoise CVPR W 2024 (CCF-A)
18. Zongsheng Cao, Jing Li, Zigan Wang*, and Jinliang Li, DiffusionE: Reasoning on knowledge graphs via Diffusion-based Graph Neural Networks KDD 2024 (CCF-A)
19. Yue Zhang, Jing Li, Zigan Wang, Jinming Duan, and Jinliang Li, AVS-Net: Attention-based Variable Splitting Network for P-MRI Acceleration BIBM 2023 (CCF-B)
Book Chapter
20. An Overview of Corporate Governance, Policies and Public Listing of Chinese State-owned Enterprises Reform, in “Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Markets Focus”, July 2014, edited by S. Boubaker and D.K Nguyen. World Scientific Publishing
Working Papers Under Revision
21. “Bank Liquidity, Credit Supply and the Environment” (with Ross Levine, Chen Lin and Wensi Xie)
Reject & Resubmit at Review of Economics and Statistics (ABS 4, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
22. “Asymptotic Theory for IV-Based Reinforcement Learning with Potential Endogeneity” (with Jin Li, Ye Luo and Xiaowei Zhang)
Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Econometrics (ABS 4, PHBS50, ABDC A*)
