Assistant Professor of Finance
Finance Department
School of Business
University of Connecticut
yao.deng@uconn.edu
Research: Empirical and Theoretical Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Macro Finance
Publications:
Estimating and Testing Investment-Based Asset Pricing Models, with Frederico Belo and Juliana Salomao, Journal of Financial Economics, December 2024
Fama-DFA Prize for the best asset pricing papers (2nd prize)
Working Papers:
Extrapolative Expectations, Corporate Activities, and Asset Prices, revise and resubmit, Management Science
Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Awards for Outstanding Research, WFA
Market Power, Technology Shocks, and the Profitability Premium, with Ding Luo and Jincheng Tong
The Risk and Return of Heterogenous Capital and Labor Inputs, with Frederico Belo, Juliana Salomao, and Maria Ana Vitorino
On the Stock Return and Investment Return Correlation Puzzle, with Frederico Belo
Teaching:
University of Connecticut
Corporate Finance (MBA and UG), 2020-
Financial Management (MBA and UG), 2022-
University of Minnesota
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (UG), 2016-2017Â