UQAM Finance Brown Bag Seminars: 2025-2026 schedules (archive 2024-2025)

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

• Asset Pricing, Risk Management, Blockchain/Crypto/DeFi, FinTech/AI, DEI, VC/Entrepreneurship, ETFs 

Publications

1. Stephanie F. Cheng, Gus De Franco, Haibo Jiang, Pengkai Lin (2019). Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms' Speculative 8-K Disclosures. Management Science, 65(12), 5901-5913. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3357 

       Media mention: Bloomberg Opinion, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog

2. Haibo Jiang (2026). Oil Futures Prices, Inflation Expectations, and Bond Risk Premiums. Journal of Futures Markets. forthcoming. http://doi.org/10.1002/fut.70083 

Working Papers

1. 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, 7th Commodity Markets Winter Workshop 2024, University of Alberta Frontiers in Finance 2024 Annual Conference, 2025 Commodity and Energy Markets Association Annual Meeting, HEC Montreal, University of Exeter

2. 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 

3. Social Media Sentiment and Bitcoin Price Dynamics: Evidence from 36 Million Postings, 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

4. Corporate DEI Rollbacks: Market Reactions, Determinants, and the Role of Political Polarization, with Zakaria Elmotassadeq

5. Corporate Venture Investments in Generative AI: A Focus on the USA and China, with Maya Cara and Lora Dimitrova 

6. Machine Learning and High Frequency Bitcoin Trading, with Xiaozhou Zhou 

7. Évaluation du risque et de la rentabilité des marchés de jetons non fongibles, with Alexandre F. Roch and David-Olivier Gobeil

Work in Progress

1. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Blockchain – A New Fintech Revolution? Evidence from the Crypto Disruptors and Disruptees 

2. ETFs and Institutional Investors' Risk Shifting and Attention Reallocation, with Jingyu Zhang

Other works

Citation-Based Finance Research Rankings & Highly Cited Articles: www.financerankings.com 

Journal Reviewers

• Review of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Futures Market, Quarterly Journal of Finance, Journal of Commodity Markets, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Finance Research Letters, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Revue Interventions Économiques

Grant External Assessors

• SSHRC Insight Grants

Teaching Experience

UQAM, 2019-present

FIN8524: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Applications in Finance (Graduate FinTech course) 

           FIN5580: International Finance 

FIN5523: Bond Market and Interest Rates    

FIN5521: Security Analysis 

           FIN3500: Financial Management 

Tulane University, 2016 - 2019

FINE7130: Advanced Financial Management (MBA course) 

FINE4140: Risk Management 

FINE4110: Investments in Equities)

University of British Columbia, 2014

COMM374: Applied Financial Markets 

Supervision

• 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

• 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

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