Research Interests

Fixed-income, mutual funds, market fragility, portfolio management.

Publications

Qin, Nan, and Lei Zhou. "Are investor-paid credit ratings superior?" Financial Management 54, no. 1 (2025): 53-87.

Huang, Jingzhi, Nan Qin, and Ying Wang. "Breadth of ownership and the cross-section of corporate bond returns." Management Science 70, no. 9 (2024): 5627-6482.

Qin, Nan, and Vijay Singal. "Effect of high-frequency trading on mutual fund performance." The Financial Review 58, no. 2 (2023): 369-394.

Qin, Nan, and Vijay Singal. "Equal-weighting and value-weighting: which one is better?" Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 58 (2022): 743–768.

Qin, Nan, and Ying Wang. "Does portfolio concentration affect performance? Evidence from corporate bond mutual funds." Journal of Banking & Finance 123 (2021): 106033.

Chen, Yong, and Nan Qin. "The behavior of investor flows in corporate bond mutual funds." Management Science 63, no. 5 (2017): 1365-1381.

Qin, Nan, and Vijay Singal. "Indexing and stock price efficiency." Financial Management 44, no. 4 (2015): 875-904.

Working Papers

"Private investments of corporate bond mutual funds", with Jaewon Choi and Qifei Zhu.

Conferences: FIFI 2025 (scheduled), FIRS 2025, FMA 2024.

"The performance of corporate bond mutual funds and the allocation of underpriced new issues", with Gjergji Cici, Scott Gibson and Pei Zhang.

Conferences: FMA 2023.

"Asset fire sales by corporate bond ETFs during the COVID-19 crisis", with Ying Wang.

Conferences: FMA 2022.

"Are passive investors a challenge to corporate governance?" With Di Wang.

Grants, Awards & Media Coverage

Summer Research Grant, NIU College of Business: 2025, 2023, 2019, 2018.

Best Paper Award for 2023, The Financial Review.

"Earnings jolt stocks like never before as ETFs, algos get blame." Bloomberg. October 17, 2016.

Teaching

MBA/EMBA/Master’s: Financial Analysis, Business Foundation (Finance), Risk Measurement.

Undergraduate: Investments, Corporate Finance, Introduction to Finance, Managerial Finance, Portfolio Management, Financial Institutions.

Average teaching evaluation over the past five years: 4.5/5.0

Education

2014 Ph.D. in Finance, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA        

2009 M.S. in Financial Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2007 B.E. in Computer Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China