KENT, Ohio – The Kent State Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship welcomes Lei Jiang, Ph.D. as Professor of Finance beginning Fall 2023.
Jiang previously served as associate professor of finance in the Finance Department in the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University where he taught courses on Introduction to Fintech and Empirical Asset Pricing. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University.
Jiang’s research interests include Empirical Asset Pricing, Investment, Empirical Household Finance, Fintech and Real Estate Finance. Specifically, he focuses on mutual funds, stocks, real estate market and cryptocurrencies, using financial econometrics, textual analysis and other methods to explain and predict key characteristics of these assets (e.g., expected returns and liquidity). He has published 20 papers and his publications appear in top-tier journals including Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Finance, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Jiang has won numerous best paper awards internationally, including the Xia Yihong Best Paper Award at the 2015 China International Conference in Finance.
“The Kent State Department of Finance is pleased to welcome Dr. Jiang to our faculty ranks,” said Steve Dennis, Ph.D., Firestone Chair of Corporate Finance at Kent State. “His research, combined with our other outstanding faculty’s publications, places us among the most accomplished research departments in Ohio and the MAC.”
About Kent State University’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship
Kent State University’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship is among the fewer than 1% of business schools worldwide to obtain dual accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in both business and accounting. The college offers 11 undergraduate majors, 14 minors, and an undergraduate Professional Sales Certificate; MBA; master’s degrees in accounting, business analytics and economics; four graduate certificates and a Ph.D. program. For more information about Kent State’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, visit www.kent.edu/crawford.