Yu Wang
PhD Student

I am currently a PhD Student at the Department of Economics, supervised by Professor Peter Smith and Professor Zaifu Yang. My research interests include Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics, Behaviour Finance, Financial Economics, etc. My current research topics are on pricing the publicly traded stocks in Chinese A-share stock market.

 

I obtained a Bachelor Degree in Economics from Fujian Normal University, China (July, 2006), a Master Degree in Economics from Xiamen University, China (June, 2010) and a MSc (with Distinction) in Finance and Econometrics from University of York, UK (January, 2012), with a Dissertation title: “The Distribution of China's Stock Market Returns and Normality Tests Based on Realized Volatility”.

Asset Pricing and Financial Econometrics: Pricing the publicly traded stocks in Chinese A-share stock market.

Behaviour Finance and Financial Economics: financial bubbles and crashes.

• Centre for Mechanism and Institution Design
• Macroeconomics & Finance cluster

• Professor Peter Smith
• Professor Zaifu Yang
• Professor Jacco Thijssen

• Mathematics for Economists II (2nd year undergraduate)
• Applied Economics III (3rd year undergraduate)
• Mathematics I (1st year undergraduate)
• Economic Data Analysis I (1st year undergraduate)