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Finance

Associate Professor of Finance

Portrait of Zhengyang Jiang, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

Associate Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Faculty Research FellowNational Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics

My primary field of research is international finance and macroeconomics. I study exchange rates, capital flows, the valuation of public debt, and the special status of the U.S. and the dollar in the international monetary system. I am also interested in the cognitive process underlying expectation formation and financial decision-making.

I received my doctor of philosophy in finance from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a bachelor degree in math and business economics from California Institute of Technology.

  • PhD, 2018, Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
    BSc, 2013, Mathematics and Business Econ & Mgmt, California Institute of Technology
  • Associate Professor of Finance, Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2022-present
    Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2018-2022
  • Best Paper Award, Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets
    Behavioral Finance Best Paper Award, China Financial Research Conference
    Nasdaq Award for the Best Paper on Asset Pricing, Western Finance Association
    Best Paper Award, Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets
    Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award, Western Finance Association
    H.J. Ryser Scholarship for Excellence in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
    Jaedicke Merit Scholar Award, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics, 2023
    Referee, European Economic Review, 2020
    Referee, American Economic Review, 2020
    Referee, Management Science, 2019
    Referee, Journal of Financial Economics, 2019
    Referee, Review of Financial Studies, 2019
    Referee, Journal of Finance, 2019

Asset Pricing III (FINC-585-3)

This course covers topics in the empirical asset pricing literature with an emphasis on recent developments. Topics include: Latent factor models; GMM theory and applications in finance; return predictability; performance evaluation; affine asset pricing models; Estimation of asset risk premia; estimation of volatility and jump risks from low/high frequency data; empirical derivatives pricing using parametric and nonparametric methods.

Asset Pricing II (FINC-585-2)

This course covers recent developments in asset pricing theory, placing emphasis on the link between financial markets and the real economy. The topics covered include: models of portfolio choice, general equilibrium models of risk and return, and models with financial frictions.