Haibo Jiang
Department of Finance, ESG UQAM
Local DS-3179
315 rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montreal QC H2X 3X2
Tel (office): (514) 987-3000 ext 5521
Email: haibojiang dot finance at gmail dot com or jiang dot haibo at uqam dot ca
UQAM Finance Brown Bag Seminars: 2024-2025 schedules
UQAM Finance Workshops: 2024 Pre-NFA program
Education
Ph.D. in Finance, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Academic Experience
School of Management, University of Quebec at Montreal (ESG UQAM)
Associate Professor of Finance, June 2023 - present
Assistant Professor of Finance, June 2019 - May 2023
Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, July 2016 - June 2019
Research Interests
FinTech, Blockchain/Cryptocurrency/DeFi, Climate Change/Sustainability, Asset Pricing, Risk Management, and ETFs
Publications
1. Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms' Speculative 8-K Disclosures, 2019 (Management Science, Vol. 65, No. 12, December 2019, pp. 5901-5913), with Stephanie Cheng, Gus De Franco, and Pengkai Lin
Media mention: Bloomberg Opinion, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog
Working Papers
2. Extrapolative Expectations and Corporate Risk Management, with Nishad Kapadia, Yuhang Xing, and Yifan Zhang
Best Paper Award, JPMCC International Symposium (CU Denver) 2022
Presented at: J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) International Symposium (CU Denver) 2022, FMA 2022, HEC Montreal
3. Social Media and Bitcoin Price Dynamics, with Pan Liu, Alexandre F. Roch, and Xiaozhou Zhou
Presented at: FMA 2022, FMA European 2023, AFFI 2023, Global Finance Conference 2023, Cardiff Fintech (Cardiff Business School) 2023, Shanghai-Edinburg-UCL Fintech 2023, PBFJ: AI and Marchine Learing in Corporate Finance (Xiamen University) 2023
Funded by Quebec's FinTech Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020-2021
4. Machine Learning and High Frequency Bitcoin Trading, with Xiaozhou Zhou
Funded by Quebec's FinTech Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020-2021
5. FinTech under COVID-19: A Step Forward or Survival of the Fittest? with Maya Cara and Lora Dimitrova
Funded by FinTech and COVID-19 Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020
6. Oil and Equity Return Predictability: The Importance of Dissecting Oil Price Changes, with Georgios Skoulakis and Jinming Xue
Presented at: J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) International Symposium (CU Denver) 2019, Paris December Finance Meeting (eurofidai) 2018, NFA 2018, FMA 2018, CICF 2017, MFA 2017, AQR, Eastern Connecticut State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Auckland, University Laval, UQAM, Pacific Northwest Finance Conference 2017, 2016 Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics
Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2016-2018
7. Oil Price, Bond Return, and Breakeven Inflation
Presented at: Conference on Climate and Energy Conference (Leibniz University Hannover) 2023, International Symposium on Environment and Energy Finance Issues (ISEFI) 2022, CICF 2019, European Finance Association (EFA) 2018, FMA 2018, MFA 2018, NFA PhD Session 2015, Steven Institute of Technology
Funded by Canadian Securities Institute (CSI) Research Foundation
Work in Progress
8. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Blockchain – A New Fintech Revolution? Evidence from the Crypto Disruptors and Disruptees
9. ETFs and Institutional Investors' Risk Shifting and Attention Reallocation, with Jingyu Zhang
Funded by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2024
10. Risks and Returns of the Non-fungible Token (NFT) Markets, with Alexandre F. Roch
Funded by the NFTs Tokens and Gamification of Investment Decision Grant, 2022-2023
11. Assessing and Pricing Firm-level Exposure to Climate Change Risk, with Gus De Franco, Nishad Kapadia, and Pengkai Lin
12. Academic Network and Productivity, with Ted Fee and Hugh Hartzog
(Related website: www.financerankings.com Citation-Based Finance Research Rankings & Highly Cited Articles )
Teaching Experience
UQAM, 2019-present
FIN8524: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Applications in Finance (a brand-new Graduate FinTech course) (Winter 2022, Winter 2023)
FIN5580: International Finance (Winter 2020, Winter 2021)
FIN5523: Bond Market and Interest Rates (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023)
FIN5521: Security Analysis (Fall 2019, Fall 2021)
FIN3500: Financial Management (Winter 2021)
Tulane University, 2016 - 2019
FINE7130: Advanced Financial Management (MBA course) (Spring 2019)
FINE4140: Risk Management (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
FINE4110: Investments in Equities (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
University of British Columbia, 2014
COMM374: Applied Financial Markets (Winter 2014)
Awards and Honors
Best Paper Award, JPMCC International Symposium (CU Denver) 2022
Recognition of Teaching Excellence, Dean’s Office, ESG UQAM, 2019-2020
Grants and Funding
The Quebec Research Fund - Society and Culture (FRQSC, Fonds de recherche du Québec - Sociéte et culture) Research Support of New Academics (NP), Quebec Provincial Research-funding Agency, 2023-2026
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant (as the principal investigator), Canadian Federal Research-funding Agency, 2022-2024 (with Jingyu Zhang)
NFTs Tokens and Gamification of Investment Decision Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2022-2023 (with Alexandre F. Roch)
PAFARC (Programme d'aide financière à la recherche et à la création, Financial assistance program for research and creation) Volet 2, ESG, UQAM, 2022
Quebec's FinTech Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020-2021 (with Xiaozhou Zhou)
FinTech and COVID-19 Grant, La Chaire Fintech AMF – Finance Montréal, 2020 (with Maya Cara and Lora Dimitrova)
PAFARC (Programme d'aide financière à la recherche et à la création, Financial assistance program for research and creation) Volet 1, ESG UQAM, 2019-2020
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant (as the collaborator), Canadian Federal Research-funding Agency, 2016-2018 (with Georgios Skoulakis (PI) and Jinming Xue)
Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research (academic year grant ×2), Tulane, 2018-2019
Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research (summer grant), Tulane, 2018
Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research (academic year grant ×2) , Tulane, 2017-2018
Faculty Development Grants, Tulane, 2018
Undergraduate Activities Funds, Tulane, 2017, 2018
Ad-Hoc Journal Reviewer
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Quarterly Journal of Finance, Journal of Finance Research Letters, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Commodity Markets, Scientific Reports
Advising
MSc Essay Supervisor, Master of Applied Finance program, ESG UQAM, 2022-present
PhD dissertation committee, external member of the joint PhD program, Concordia University, 2019-present
Academic Year Award for Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research (four students), Tulane, 2017-2018, 2018-2019
Summer Award for for Faculty Mentored Undergraduate Research, Tulane (one student), 2018
Personal
Citizenship: Canada
Languages: English, French, Mandarin
www.financerankings.com Citation-Based Finance Research Rankings & Highly Cited Articles
with Ted Fee and Hugh Hartzog