I am an assistant professor of economics at the Finance Department, the School of Economics, Zhejiang University.
My research is on financial intermediation, FinTech, and information in financial markets.
Email: zhiqiangye2024@outlook.com
Costly Inexpensive Information: Endogenous Competition for Attention and Corporate (In)efficiency (Job Market Paper).
Previously titled "Information Abundance, Competition for Attention, and Corporate Efficiency"
Presentation: 2023 Finance Forum PhD Mentoring Day, 2023 Annual Meeting of ABF&E, 18th Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, TSE-TSM PhD Finance Workshop, 6th Future of Financial Information Conference, 2nd Aarhus Workshop on Strategic Interaction in Corporate Finance, 2nd CBCF Annual Conference
Lending Beyond Bagehot: Loan Contracting with Advantageous Central Bank Funding (with Christian Eufinger).
Presentation (* denotes presentation by co-authors): Finance Forum 2023*, 2023 CFRI&CIRF Joint Conference, 2024 CEBRA Annual Meeting, 2024, Conference on Markets and Intermediaries
Banking on Bailouts (with Christian Eufinger and Juan Pablo Gorostiaga).
An Equilibrium Model for Risk Management Spillover (with Shiyang Huang, Ying Jiang, and Zhigang Qiu), Journal of Banking and Finance, 2019.
Information Technology and Lender Competition (with Xavier Vives). Journal of Financial Economics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2024.103957. Winner of the SANFI award for the best paper on Banking at the 29th Finance Forum, 2022.
Fintech Entry, Lending Market Competition, and Welfare (with Xavier Vives). Journal of Financial Economics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2025.104040. Best Paper Award in the Second School of Finance Alumni Forum at Renmin University of China, 2024.