Yangru Wu

 

Professor of Finance

 

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Biographical Information

 

Hi! Welcome to my homepage! I am Professor of Finance and Director of the Master of Quantitative Finance Program at the Rutgers Business School-Newark & New Brunswick. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1993. I worked as an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and West Virginia University prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1997. I teach International Finance, Investments and Corporate Finance at various levels. I have also taught several executive training courses. My current research interest areas are international finance and empirical asset pricing. I have published articles in numerous scholastic journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money Credit & Banking, and Biometrika. I have also served as a referee for various journals including several leading journals in finance and economics.

 

To know more about my research interests and publications, please see my cv in .pdf file below.

 

 

Curriculum Vitae 

 

 

My Best Two Pieces of Work

 

The 1988 Piece (click to see)

 

The 1996 Piece (click to see)

 

 

Contact Information 

 

Department of Finance & Economics

Rutgers Business School-Newark & New Brunswick

Rutgers University

111 Washington Street

Newark, NJ 07102-3027

Tel: 973-353-1146

Fax: 973-353-1233

 

Email: yangruwu@andromeda.rutgers.edu

 

Homepage: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~yangruwu

 

 

Honors and Awards

 

Ranked among top 1000 economists worldwide based on Tom’s ranking

      (Source: Tom’s ranking, http://student.ulb.ac.be/~tcoupe/rank1000.html)

Best of the Best Competitive Paper Award, FMA, 1999

Competitive Paper Award in Investments, FMA, 1999

Senior Faculty Research Award, Rutgers Business School-Newark & New Brunswick, 2003

Crowell Award Finalist, PanAgora Asset Management, Boston, 2002

Outstanding Research Award, College of Business, West Virginia University, 1996-1997

 

 

 

Teaching Schedule

 

1. International Capital Markets

           

Presentation Slides:

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Solution to end-of-chapter problems

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Some Published and Working Papers (in .pdf files)

 

“Momentum and Mean Reversion across National Equity Markets” (with Ronald Balvers). (TEXT, Journal of Empirical Finance 2006).

 

“Technical Trading-Rule Profitability, Data Snooping, and Reality Check: Evidence from the Foreign Exchange Market” (with Min Qi) (TEXT, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 2006).

 

“Mean Reversion across National Equity Markets and Parametric Contrarian Investment Strategies” (with Ronald Balvers and Erik Gilliland). (TEXT, Journal of Finance April 2000).

 

“Predictability of Short-Horizon Equity Returns in International Equity Markets” (with Dilip Patro). (TEXT, Journal of Empirical Finance 11, 2004, 553-584.)

 

"Explaining Exchange Rate Risk in World Stock Markets: A Panel Approach" (with Dilip Patro and John Wald). (TEXT, Journal of Banking and Finance 26, 2002).

 

“The Impact of Macroeconomic and Financial Variables on Market Risk: Evidence from International Equity Returns” (with Dilip Patro and John Wald) (TEXT, European Financial Management, 2002).

 

"Nonlinear Prediction of Exchange Rates with Monetary Fundamentals" (with Min Qi). (TEXT, Journal of Empirical Finance 10, 2003, 623-640).

 

“Random Walk versus Breaking Trend in Stock Prices: Evidence from Emerging Markets” (with Kausik Chaudhuri). (TEXT, Journal of Banking and Finance, 27, 2003, 575-592)

 

"Rethinking Deviations from Uncovered Interest Parity " (with Nelson Mark). (TEXT, The Economic Journal, 1998).

 

"Understanding Spot and Forward Exchange Rate Regressions" (with Weike Hai and Nelson Mark). (TEXT, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1997).

 

"Are Real Exchange Rates Non-stationary? (TEXT, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 1996).

 

“Mean Reversion in Interest Rates: New Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries” (with Hua Zhang), (TEXT, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1996).

 

“Asymmetry in Forward Exchange Rate Bias: A Puzzling Result” (with Hua Zhang), (TEXT, Economics Letters, 1996).

 

“Forward Premiums as Unbiased Predictors of Future Currency Depreciation” (with Hua Zhang), (TEXT, Journal of International Money and Finance, 1997).

 

"Monopolistic Competition, Increasing Returns to Scale and the Welfare Costs of Inflation” (with Junxi Zhang) (TEXT, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2000).

 

“Endogenous Markups and the Effects of Income Taxation: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries” (with Junxi Zhang), (TEXT, Journal of Public Economics, September 2000, 383-406.)

 

“Endogenous Growth and the Welfare Costs of Inflation” (with Junxi Zhang), (TEXT, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1998).

 

“The Effects of Inflation on the Number of Firms and Firm Size” (with Junxi Zhang), (TEXT, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, May 2001).

 

Hysteresis in Unemployment: Evidence from 48 U.S. States” (with Frank Song), (TEXT, Economic Inquiry, 1997).

 

“Further Results on the Finite-Sample Distribution of Monti’s Portmanteau Test for the Adequacy of an ARMA(p,q) Model” (with Andy Kwan), (Biometrika, 1997).

 

“Rational Bubbles in the Stock Market: Accounting for the U.S. Stock-Price Volatility” (TEXT, Economic Inquiry 1997).

 

"Are There Rational Bubbles in Foreign Exchange Markets.(TEXT, Journal of International Money and Finance, 1995).

 

 

Useful Links

 

Journal of Finance: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/journal/jof.htm

 

List of Economic & Finance Journals: http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/journals.html

 

JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org

 

 

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Last updated April 27, 2007