Ming Yang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Economics and Finance

Department of Economics and School of Management

University College London

30 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AX, United Kingdom

Email: m-yang@ucl.ac.uk

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I am an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at UCL. I work on various topics in finance, economics, and accounting, which share the central theme of strategic information acquisition and disclosure. In particular, I study i) the interplay between security design and information acquisition in corporate finance, ii) the role of information acquisition and disclosure in supporting coordination, iii) incentive contract and monitoring, iv) accounting and optimal information disclosure, etc. My work includes papers published in the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Management Science.

Publications




This paper was previously circulated under the titles "Coordination and the Relative Cost of Distinguishing Nearby States" and "Coordination and Continuous Choice". (old working paper version, slides


This paper was previously circulated under the title "Optimality of Securitized Debt under Flexible Information Acquisition". 

The Finance Theory Group Awards for the best theory paper on the finance job market



This paper was previously circulated under the titles “Venture Finance under Flexible Information Acquisition” and “Security Design in a Production Economy under Flexible Information Acquisition.”



This paper was previously circulated under the title "Coordination with Rational Inattention."