Wenhao Yang
Assistant Professor of Finance
Belk Colledge of Business, UNC Charlotte
Assistant Professor of Finance
Belk Colledge of Business, UNC Charlotte
"The Persistence of Fee Dispersion among Mutual Funds," with Michael Cooper and Michael Halling, Review of Finance, Volume 25, Issue 2, March 2021, Pages 365–402
"RQ Innovative Efficiency and Firm Value,'' with Michael Cooper and Anne Marie Knott, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 57 , Issue 5 , August 2022 , pp. 1649 - 1694
Lead Article
"Humans in Charge of Trading Robots: The First Experiment," with Elena Asparouhova, Peter Bosssaerts, Xiaoqin Cai, Kristian Rotaru, and Nitin Yadav, Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 4, July 2024, Pages 1215–1244
2025 IQAM Runner-Up Best Paper Award for the best investment paper published in the Review of Finance
"Costly Information Acquisition in Decentralized Markets: An Experiment," with Elena Asparouhova and Peter Bosssaerts, Management Science, Volume 70, Issue 12, December 2024, Pages 8833-8852
FMA Best Paper Award in Financial Markets and Institutions
"How Are Firms Sold? The Role of Common Ownership," with Mohammad Irani and Feng Zhang 2024, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Accepted
"Prospect Theory In the Field: Revealed Preferences from Mutual Fund Flows,'' with Bing Han and Pengfei Sui, 2025
Conditionally Accepted, JFE
"Asset Pricing In a World of Imperfect Foresight" with Peter Bossaerts and Felix Fattinger 2025
R&R, Management Science
Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2022, SGF 2022
"For Better or For Worse: Algorithmic Choice in Experimental Markets,'' with Elena Asparouhova, Xiaoqin Cai, Debrah Meloso, Jan Nielsen, and Christine Parlour 2022
2022 Fintech: Innovation, Inclusion, and Risks
"Measuring (In)Attention to Mutual Fund Fees: Evidence from Experiments,'' with Hugh Kim 2022
2020 EF Society, 2020 AEA Poster Session, 2018 Research in Behavioral Finance Conference
"Private Equity Funds and Firm Products,'' with Feng Zhang 2022
2018 CICF
2022 Miami Behavioral Finance Conference (scheduled), *Fintech: Innovation, Inclusion, and Risks Conference (CA, US), *Helsinki Finance Summit, *SGF Conference, Ba Li Tai Young Finance Scholar Forum (Nankai University)
2021 Asian Finance Association, PKUHSBC - CUHKSZ Joint conference
2020 MFA, NFA, *The First Conference on Zero/Minimal Intelligence Agents
2019 WFA, *Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, *Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives , *Society for Experimental Finance
2018 European Finance Association, China International Conference in Finance, *Research in Behavioral Finance Conference (Amsterdam), *Fintech, Credit, and the Future of Banking (Switzerland), Cheung Kong Graduate School of Economics, Tsinghua University, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
2017 Financial Management Association, Experimental Economics Workshop (The Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University), *Consumer Federation of America Research Briefing, *Chapman Conference on the Experimental and Behavioral Aspects of Financial Markets, *Hebrew University
2016 EF Regional Conference North America, *CIFR Conference on Investment Management and Markets, Sydney (Australia)