Faculty and ResearchExpert Guide

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics
  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Master of Arts in Economics
  Graduate School of the People's Bank of China, Beijing , China
• Master of Arts in Economics
  University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• Bachelor of Arts in Economics
  Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

Areas of Expertise

• behavior of capital markets
• interaction of capital markets with corporate decisions and corporate governance
• the two areas in connection with macroeconomics, regulations/certifications, and capital market research in accounting

Courses Taught

• Capital Budgeting and Long Term Resource Allocation
• Competitive Strategy
• Corporate Finance
• Financial Futures and Fixed Income Investments
• Global Financial Strategy
• International Financial Management
• Securities Analysis
• Statistical Methods in Finance I
• Statistical Methods in Finance II

Refereed Journal Articles

Kang, Q., & Liu, Q.

(2023).

Eliciting Managerial Willingness to Invest: A Revealed-Preference Approach.

Journal of Business Research

, 155(B)

.

Guo, S., Kang, Q., & Mitnik, O.

(2022).

Dynamics of Managerial Power and CEO Compensation in the Course of Corporate Distress: Evidence from 1992 to 2019.

Financial Management

, 51(3)

.

Hibbert, A. M., Kang, Q., Kumar, A., & Mishra, S. (2020). Heterogeneous Beliefs and Return Volatility around Seasoned Equity Offerings. Journal of Financial Economics, 137(2). View Article

Jiang, X., & Kang, Q. (2020). Cross-sectional PEG Ratios, Market Equity Premium, and Macroeconomic Activity. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 35(3). View Article

Kang, Q. (2019). Business-cycle pattern of asset returns: A general equilibrium explanation. Annals of Finance. View Article

Huang, L., & Kang, Q. (2018). Information, Investment Adjustment, and the Cost of Capital. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. View Article

Kang, Q., Li, X., & Su, T. (2018). Sell-Side Financial Analysts and the CFA® Program. Financial Analysts Journal. View Article

Gorton, G., Huang, L., & Kang, Q. (2017). The limitations of stock market efficiency: Price informativeness and CEO turnover. Review of Finance. View Article

Kang, Q., & Liu, Q. (2010). Information-based stock trading, executive incentives, and the principal-agent problem. Management Science. View Article

Kang, Q., Liu, Q., & Qi, R. (2010). Predicting Stock Market Returns with Aggregate Discretionary Accruals. Journal of Accounting Research. View Article

Kang, Q., Liu, Q., & Qi, R. (2010). The Sarbanes-Oxley act and corporate investment: A structural assessment. Journal of Financial Economics. View Article

Kang, Q., Liu, Q., & Qi, R. (2010). Market timing with aggregate accruals. Journal of Asset Management, 10(3).

Kang, Q., & Liu, Q. (2008). Stock trading, information production, and executive incentives. Journal of Corporate Finance. View Article

Kang, Q., & Brandt, M. (2004). On the relationship between the conditional mean and volatility of stock returns: A latent VAR approach. Journal of Financial Economics. View Article