Yan Xiong
Associate Professor @ University of Hong Kong
Finance Theory Group (FTG) Member
Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Markets
Email: yanxiong@hku.hk
Research interests: Financial markets, corporate finance, information economics
Publications
Information sharing in financial markets, with Itay Goldstein and Liyan Yang. Accepted at Journal of Financial Economics.
Disclosing endogenous cost information, with Xu Jiang. Accepted at The Accounting Review.
Secret and overt information acquisition in financial markets, with Liyan Yang. Review of Financial Studies, Volume 36, Issue 9, 2023, Pages 3643–3692.
Why is certified financial reporting mandatory? A real effects perspective, with Xu Jiang and Baohua Xin. Journal of Accounting Research, 2023, 61(1), 377-413.
Channel coordination of storable goods, with Xi Li and Krista Li. Marketing Science, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023.
Economic consequences of managerial compensation contract disclosure, with Xu Jiang. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 73 (2022) 101489.
Skill acquisition and data sales, with Shiyang Huang and Liyan Yang. Management Science, Vol. 68, No. 8, August 2022, Pages 5557-6354.
Media coverage: phys.org, hedgeweek, EurekAlert
Disclosure, competition, and learning from asset prices, with Liyan Yang. Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 197, October 2021, 105331.
Information bias in the proxy advisory market, with Shichao Ma. Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 82–135.
Media coverage: SEC comment letter, RealClearPublicAffairs.com
2022 RCFS Rising Scholar Award
Working Papers
Personalized Pricing and Firm Incentives, with Liyan Yang
Media coverage: The Duke FinReg Blog
2023 ABFER, MFA, CFRC, 2022 Cavalcade Asia-pacific
Disagreement and Bond PEAD, with Yoshio Nozawa and Yancheng Qiu
2022 MFA, ABFER, CICF, 2021 FMA
Too Much Information? Increasing Firms' Information Advantages in the IPO Process, with Michele Dathan
Media coverage: CLS Blus Sky Blog
2021 MFA, EasternFA, 2020 Showcasing Women in Finance (postponed)
Data Regulation in Credit Markets, with Uday Rajan
2025 AFA, 2024 MFA, FIRS, ABFER-JFDS Conference on AI and Capital Markets, 2023 Hong Kong Conference for Fintech, AI, and Big Data in Business
Designing Index Provision, with Yizhou Xiao
2024 CFRC, Cambridge Corporate Finance Theory Symposium, 2023 Fall FTG Meeting Short Paper Session
Institutional Ownership Concentration and Informational Efficiency, with Liyan Yang and Zexin Zheng
Others
Comments on "Information acquisition and expected returns: Evidence from EDGAR search traffic" (Non peer-reviewed) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 14 April 2022, 104385.
VaR constrained asset pricing with relative performance, with Xiangbo Liu, Zhigang Qiu. Economics Letters, 121.2 (2013): 174-178.