Associate Professor of Finance
Hankamer Scholl of Business, Baylor University
Associate Professor of Finance, 2025-present
Assistant Professor of Finance, 2017-2025
Hankamer Scholl of Business, Baylor University
Email: Qinxi_Wu@baylor.edu
Office Phone: (254) 710-4775
Foster Business and Innovation 320.41
One Bear Place #98001, Waco, TX 76706
I am an associate professor of Finance at Hankamer Scholl of Business, Baylor University. I joined Baylor in 2017 after receiving my PhD in Finance from Georgia State University.
My research focuses on empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, Fintech, and corporate innovation.
Publication
How Technological Innovation Shapes Financial Innovation: Substitution Effects Versus Knowledge Diffusion (with Mark Chen, Joanna Wang, Sophia Hu)
Research Policy, 2025, Accepted
Can Blockchain Technology Help Overcome Contractual Incompleteness? Evidence from State Law (with Mark Chen, Joanna Wang, Sophia Hu)
Management Science, 2023, Volume 69, No. 11, 6540–6567 (SSRN)
Are Directors Rewarded for Excellence? Evidence from Reputation Shocks and Career Outcomes (with Mark Chen, Hai Tran, Evgenia Zhivotova)
Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2022, Volume 11, Issue 2, 263–313 (SSRN)
How Valuable is FinTech Innovation? (with Mark Chen, Baozhong Yang)
Review of Financial Studies, 2019, Volume 32, Issue 5, 2062–2106 (SSRN)
Working Papers
Winning an Award Could Set You “Free”: the CFO Labor Market and Financial Reporting Quality (sole-authored )
1st round R&R - Review of Corporate Finance Studies
Conferences: AFA 2021; AAA 2020 Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting; 2020 Hawai'i Accounting Research Conference; MFA 2018; FMA 2017; AAA 2017; 2017 FMA Applied Finance Conference
Board Interlocks, Knowledge Spillovers, and Corporate Innovation (with Mark Chen, Sophia Hu, Joanna Wang)
Conferences: MFA 2024; SFS Cavalcade NA 2023; the 8th Annual International Corporate Governance Society Conference 2022; FMA 2022
Growing Pains or Confidence? CEO Relative Age, Stress, and Firm Performance (with Sean Cao, Tao Shu, and Jasmine Wang)
Conferences: 2023 Hawai'i Accounting Research Conference; FMA 2022; AAA 2022
Do Tournament Incentives Encourage Improved Productivity? Evidence from the NBA (with Harley Ryan)
Conferences: EFMA Annual Meeting 2020 (canceled due to Covid); FMA Annual Meeting, 2016
Soli Deo Gloria