Wei Yang


Simon School of Business
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
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Curriculum Vitae


Academic Appointment

2005 – present Assistant Professor of Finance
Simon School of Business, University of Rochester

Education

2005


2000


1994

Ph.D. in Finance
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. in Physics
Peking University

Publications

  1. "Long-run risk in durable consumption".
    Journal of Financial Economics 102, 45-61, 2011.

    Presented at: The 20th Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, November 2009; the American Finance Association Annual Meeting, January 2010.


  2. "Regime shifts in a dynamic term structure model of U.S. Treasury bond yields"
    (with Qiang Dai and Kenneth J. Singleton).
    Review of Financial Studies 20, 1669-1706, 2007.


  3. "Market pricing of deposit insurance"
    (with Darrell Duffie, Robert Jarrow, and Amiyatosh Purnanandam).
    Journal of Financial Services Research 24, 93-119, 2003.

Working Papers

  1. "Size and return: A new perspective"
    (with Fangjian Fu). Revise and resubmit at Review of Financial Studies.

    Presented at: The 21st Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, November 2010; the Finance Down Under Conference and the Best Paper Award, March 2011; the 5th Biennial McGill Conference on Global Asset Management, June 2011.


  2. "Intertemporal substitution and equity premium: A perspective with habit in Epstein-Zin preferences". Revise and resubmit at Review of Finance.


  3. "Business cycles and regime-shift risk" (Job Market Paper).


  4. "Household production, electricity usage, and asset prices"
    (with Zhi Da and Hayong Yun).


  5. "Long-run volatility risk in leisure".


  6. "Time-varying exposure to long-run consumption risk".

    Presented at the NBER Asset Pricing Program Meeting, March 2007.

Teaching

2006 – present


2006 – present
Corporate finance (MBA elective, case-based)
Average teaching evaluation: 4.25 / 5

Fixed-income securities (MBA elective, quantitative)
Average teaching evaluation: 4.23 / 5

References

Ravi Bansal
The Fuqua School of Business
Duke University

Toni Whited
Simon School of Business
University of Rochester
Ken Singleton
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

Amir Yaron
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania