2026 Wei Jiang: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	56	986	879	615	535	189	17808

Overview

Wei Jiang is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong focus on Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their main subfields of study include:

Accounting
Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Management Science and Operations Research
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Wei Jiang's work covers key research topics such as:

Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Corporate Finance and Governance
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Stock Market Forecasting Methods
Supply Chain and Inventory Management
Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wei Jiang include:

Baozhong Yang
Sean Cao
Alan Zhang
Alon Brav
Vyacheslav Fos

Wei Jiang has published predominantly in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal (28 publications)
Journal of Financial Economics (4 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
Production and Operations Management (2 publications)
Review of Financial Studies (2 publications)

Representative recent papers include:

Blockchain-Enabled Data Sharing in Supply Chains: Model, Operationalization, and Tutorial, 2021, Production and Operations Management
How to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI, 2023, Review of Financial Studies
Dancing with activists, 2020, Journal of Financial Economics
From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The art and AI of stock analyses, 2024, Journal of Financial Economics
What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity during the Pandemic?, 2021, The Journal of Finance

Best Publications

Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance

Alon Brav;Wei Jiang;Frank Partnoy;Randall Thomas

1957
Citations
Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price

Qi Chen;Itay Goldstein;Wei Jiang

1883
Citations
How Much Choice is Too Much?: Contributions to 401(k) Retirement Plans

Sheena S. Iyengar;Wei Jiang;Gur Huberman

942
Citations
The Real Effects of Financial Markets: The Impact of Prices on Takeovers

Alex Edmans;Itay Goldstein;Wei Jiang

844
Citations
The Long Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

Lucian Arye Bebchuk;Alon Brav;Wei Jiang

780
Citations
Payoff complementarities and financial fragility: Evidence from mutual fund outflows $

Qi Chen;Itay Goldstein;Wei Jiang

755
Citations
To FinTech and Beyond

Itay Goldstein;Wei Jiang;G Andrew Karolyi

657
Citations
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

Lucian A. Bebchuk;Lucian A. Bebchuk;Alon Brav;Alon Brav;Wei Jiang;Wei Jiang

550
Citations
How Does Hedge Fund Activism Reshape Corporate Innovation

Alon Brav;Alon Brav;Wei Jiang;Wei Jiang;Song Ma;Xuan Tian

542
Citations
The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes

Alon Brav;Wei Jiang;Hyunseob Kim

520
Citations
Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance

Alon Brav;Alon Brav;Wei Jiang;Wei Jiang;Randall S. Thomas;Frank Partnoy

470
Citations
Offering versus Choice in 401(k) Plans: Equity Exposure and Number of Funds

Gur Huberman;Wei Jiang

463
Citations
Have Instrumental Variables Brought Us Closer to the Truth

Wei Jiang

436
Citations
Hedge Fund Activism: A Review

Alon Brav;Wei Jiang;Hyunseob Kim

417
Citations
Analysts’ Weighting of Private and Public Information

Qi Chen;Wei Jiang

411
Citations
Reputation concerns of independent directors: : Evidence from individual director voting

Wei Jiang;Hualin Wan;Shan Zhao

410
Citations
Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price

Qi Chen;Itay Goldstein;Wei Jiang;Wei Jiang

385
Citations
Uncovering Hedge Fund Skill from the Portfolio Holdings They Hide

Vikas Agarwal;Wei Jiang;Yuehua Tang;Baozhong Yang

360
Citations
When Shareholders Are Creditors: Effects of the Simultaneous Holding of Equity and Debt by Non-commercial Banking Institutions

Wei Jiang;Kai Li;Pei Shao

295
Citations
LIAR'S LOAN? EFFECTS OF ORIGINATION CHANNEL AND INFORMATION FALSIFICATION ON MORTGAGE DELINQUENCY

Wei Jiang;Ashlyn Aiko Nelson;Edward Vytlacil

288
Citations
Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Determinants of Participation and Contributions Rates

Gur Huberman;Sheena S. Iyengar;Wei Jiang

282
Citations
Environmental Strategy, Institutional Force, and Innovation Capability: A Managerial Cognition Perspective

Defeng Yang;Aric Xu Wang;Kevin Zheng Zhou;Wei Jiang

254
Citations
Inferring Reporting-Related Biases in Hedge Fund Databases from Hedge Fund Equity Holdings

Vikas Agarwal;Vikas Agarwal;Vyacheslav Fos;Wei Jiang

250
Citations
The Real Effects of Financial Markets: The Impact of Prices on Takeovers

Alex Edmans;Alex Edmans;Itay Goldstein;Wei Jiang;Wei Jiang

163
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alon Brav Duke University

Itay Goldstein University of Pennsylvania

Randall S. Thomas Vanderbilt University

Alex Edmans London Business School

Lucian Arye Bebchuk Harvard University

Edward Vytlacil Yale University

Gur Huberman Columbia University

Kai Li Zhengzhou University

Manju Puri Duke University

Patrick Bolton Imperial College London

External Links

Personal website of Wei Jiang Google Scholar page

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