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Qingwei Wang

Professor Qingwei Wang

Head of Accounting and Finance
Professor of Finance

Cardiff Business School

Overview

Qingwei Wang holds the Personal Chair of Finance at Cardiff Business School. He joined Cardiff Business School as a Senior Lecturer in September 2014. He previously worked as a Lecturer in Finance at Bangor Business School, and a researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW, Mannheim, Germany). He has engaged in projects with Deutsche Bank, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, and German Science Foundation.

Qingwei is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is also the co-director of Cardiff Fintech Research Group, the former director of Cardiff Empirical Finance Group and Centre for China Business Research. He serves as an editorial board member of British Accounting Review, an associate editor of Finance Research Letters and The European Journal of Finance, and a Guest Editor for the special issue on “Fintech and Financial Markets” at The European Journal of Finance. He has published in many journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Empirical Finance, European Financial Management, and International Journal of Forecasting.

Media contributions

  • Television interviews: Phoenix CNE
  • Research featured in: Bloomberg, Reuters, Handelsblatt, WirtschaftsWoche, Europe Business & Lifestyle (invited article)

Publication

2024

2023

2022

2021

2019

2018

2016

2015

2014

2011

2010

2009

Articles

Book sections

Conferences

Research

Research interests

  • Fintech
  • Machine learning and big data investing
  • Behavioral Finance
  • Investment Strategies
  • Climate change

Invited talks and seminars

  • Bangor University, University of Bath, Centre for European Economic Research (Germany), European Central Bank, University of Glasgow, Goethe University Frankfurt, Heriot-Watt University, Loughborough University, University of Reading, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Sun Yat-sen University, Xiamen University, University of Bremen, Wales Tech Week.

Visiting Research

  • Centre for European Economic Research, University of Freiburg, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, University of Bremen

Teaching

Current Teaching commitments

  • Market Microstructure and Electronic Trading (Postgraduate module leader)

Previous Teaching commitments

  • Research Topics in Finance (Postgraduate module leader)
  • Market Microstructure and Trading System (Postgraduate module leader)
  • International Corporate Finance (Postgraduate module leader)
  • International Corporate Finance (Undergraduate module leader)

Biography

Academic Employment

  • Personal Chair in Finance, Cardiff Business School, August 2022 - present
  • Reader in Finance, Cardiff Business School, September 2019 - July 2022
  • Senior Lecturer in Finance,  Cardiff Business School, September 2014 - July 2019
  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance,  Bangor Business School,  March 2010 - August 2014
  • Research Fellow, Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany, September 2005 - January 2010

Qualifications

  • PGCert in Higher Education, 2014
  • Ph.D. in Finance, University of Mannheim
  • M.A. in Economics and Management Science, Humboldt University at Berlin
  • LL.B. in International Economic Law, Fudan University
  • B.A. in Economics, Anhui Normal University

Current administrative roles

Past administrative role

Editorial board member of:

Media contributions

  • Television interviews: Phoenix CNE
  • Research featured in: Bloomberg, Reuters, Handelsblatt, WirtschaftsWoche, Europe Business & Lifestyle (invited article)

Recent public talks

  • Keynote at the conference “China’s Financial Openness and Development in the PostCovid-19 Era”, virtual, 2021
  • Panel talk, “Blockchain Research: Digital Assets and beyond”, Wales TechWeek, 2020
  • Panel talk, ESRC Sparking Impact Workshop on "Unlocking the potential of blockchain", Cardiff, 2019

External examiner

  • Postgraduate in Finance & Management at University of Bristol
  • Msc programme in finance at Open University
  • Msc programme in macro and monetary economics, and finance at Birmingham University (2017-
    2021)

Refereeing

  • Grant reviewer: ESRC, Swiss National Science Foundation, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Cardiff University
  • Journals: British Journal of Management, British Accounting Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, International Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Journal of Financial Stability, European Journal of Finance, Accounting Horizons, Quantitative Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Review of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Economics and Statistics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Central Bank Review

Honours and awards

  • EFMA-WRDS Best Conference Research Award Nominations, 2024
  • Best Paper Finalist Award at the 21st China Symposium on Empirical Accounting, 2022
  • Best (PhD) Paper Award at the 22nd BAFA SIG-AFEE Workshop on Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2022
  • Best Academic Programme finalist, Fintech Wales Awards, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Best Paper Award, 12th Global Business and Social Science Research Conference, 2016

Professional memberships

  • Member of Society for Experimental Finance
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy
  • Research Associate of Centre for European Economic Research, Germany

Supervisions

Please note that due to a large number of existing PhD students, I am currently unable to accept new ones.

PhD supervision interests:

  • Fintech, including cryptoassets, machine learning and big data investing
  • Investor sentiment, investor attention and information acquisition
  • Investment strategies
  • Climate change

Current PhD students:

Placements of past PhD students:

  • Bangor University, Cardiff University, University of Southampton, University of Northampton, Greenwich University, Groningen University, etc.

PhD examinations:

  • Birmingham University, Cardiff University (internal), Durham University, IFHE University, Newcastle University, Strathclyde University, Swansea University.

Current supervision

Mengjia Li

Mengjia Li

Research Student/Graduate Tutor

Contact Details

Email WangQ30@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 75514
Campuses Aberconway Building, Room F28, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Specialisms

  • Finance