Prof. Tony Zhenjiang QIN

Assistant Professor in Finance

Faculty of Business Administration
University of Macau, E22
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China

Contact Information

Room: E22-4070
Telephone: (853) 8822-4838
E-mail: zhenjiangqin

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Finance, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2012
  • M.Sc. in Finance, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2010
  • M.Sc. in Probability and Statistics, Central South University, China, 2007
  • B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Central South University, China, 2004

Related Working Experiences

  • Assistant Professor of Finance, Institute of Financial Studies, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, (June 2012 – June 2014).
  • Associate Professor of Finance, Institute of Financial Studies, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, (June 2014 – July 2017).
  • Assistant Professor of Finance, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau, (August 2017 – Present).

Teaching

  • Undergraduate Courses
    • Advanced Financial Mathematics (FINC436/FINC4013)
    • Exotic Options and Structured Products (FINC437)
    • Financial Management (FINC210)
  • Graduate Courses
    • Mathematical Techniques in Finance (FINC7033)

Research Interests

  • Asset Pricing
  • Corporate Finance

Grants and Awards

  • Influence of Market Frictions on Optimal Investment Strategies, funded by the Research Committee of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 2016-2017, Principal Investigator.
  • Achieving Pareto Equilibrium with Continuous Trading, funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau (SRG), 2018-2021, Principal Investigator.
  • Information Quality and Asset Pricing: The Implications of Heterogeneous Beliefs, funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau (MYRG), 2019-2022, Principal Investigator.

Selected Journal Papers

  1. Heterogeneous Beliefs and Information: Cost of Capital, Trading Volume and Investor Welfare (With Peter Ove Christensen). 2014. The Accounting Review (ABS4*,FT50,UTD), vol 89，page 209–242.
  2. Speculations in Option Markets Enhance Allocation Efficiency with Heterogeneous Beliefs and Learning. 2013. Journal of Banking and Finance (ABS3)，vol 37，page 4675–4694. Lead article.

Selected Conference Papers

  1. How to Squander Your Endowment: Pitfalls and Remedies, with Philip Dybvig. China International Conference in Finance (2015) and American Finance Association Annual Meeting (2016)
  2. Achieving Pareto Equilibrium with Continuous Trading. Taiwan Finance Association Annual Meeting in National Chengchi University, Taipei (2018)
  3. Ruin Probability and Maintaining Costs. 27th PBFEAM Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei (2019)

Selected Working Papers and Other Publications

  1. How Does the Number of Institutional Investors Influence the Effect from Threat of Disciplinary Trading on Agency Costs? With Eric C. Chang, Tse-Chun Lin, and Xiaorong Ma, 2019.
  2. Does Distance Matter for Bank Lending: Evidence from Private Firms in China. With Xu Du and Shuoxun Zhang, 2019.
  3. Social Network Matters: Capital Structure Risk Control on REITs. With Stanley I. M. Ko and Rose Neng Lai, 2019.
  4. How to Squander Your Endowment: Pitfalls and Remedies, with Philip Dybvig, 2018.
  5. Non-linearity of Short Rate Drift after Quantitative Easing. With Stanley Iat-Meng Ko, Chia Chun Lo, and Konstantinos Skindilias, 2019.
  6. Achieving Pareto Optimality by Continuous Trading with Information Jumps, 2018.
  7. An Equilibrium Model of Hedging with Transaction Costs, with Mark Loewenstein, 2018.
  8. Maintaining Cost and Ruin Probability, 2018.
  9. Information Quality and Asset Pricing: The Implications of Heterogeneous Beliefs, with Xiaoneng Zhu, 2018.

Professional Society Membership

  • American Finance Association (AFA)
  • Financial Management Association International (FMA)
  • American Economics Association (AEA)