Ruixiang Wang

Assistant Professor, School of Business

Ruixiang Wang’s research covers innovation, corporate governance and executive compensation. He is also interested in understanding asset prices by modeling households’ consumption behavior. He has presented his research papers at prestigious academic conferences including those organized by the American Finance Association and Northern Finance Association. Ruixiang’s work received the semifinalist for the best paper award by the Financial Management Association in 2021 and Winemiller Excellence Award in Data Analytics in 2020. Prior to joining Clark University, he was a visiting assistant professor of finance at Northeastern University. Ruixiang earned his Ph.D degree in Business Administration at the University of Missouri Columbia in 2021 and Master degree in Business Administration at the University of San Diego in 2016. 

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in , University of Missouri, 2021
  • M.B.A. in , University of San Diego, 2016
  • B.S. in , Shanghai Business School, 2013

Affiliated Departments

School of Business, School of Management

Scholarly and creative works

  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Do say-on-pay votes affect M&A decisions?

    Published in Journal of Corporate Finance
    01
    2025
    Vol. 91
    Shantanu Dutta, Micah Officer, Ruixiang Wang, Pengcheng Zhu
  • Presentations

    Family Trust, Corporate Control and Innovation

    Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting 2023
    Asheville NC
    March
    2023
    Sponsored by Clark University
    Ruixiang Wang, Eliezer Fich, Adam Yore
  • Presentations

    Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists

    Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting 2023
    Asheville, NC
    March
    2023
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Founder versus agent CEOs: Effects of founder status and power on firm innovation and cost of capital

    Published in Journal of Business Research
    November
    2023
    Vol. 167
    Issue #November 2023
    Ruixiang Wang, Rangapriya (Priya) Kannan-Narasimhan, Pengcheng Zhu
  • Presentations

    Patrolling the Securities Laws: Towards the SECs Investigation of Founder-CEO Firms

    Financial Management Association Meeting 2023
    Chicago
    October
    2023
    Ruixiang Wang, Yang Bai, Inder Khurana
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    Northern Finance Association
    Banff, Canada
    September
    2022
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Will the reddit rebellion take you to the moon? Evidence from WallStreetBets

    Published in Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
    June
    2022
    Ruixiang Wang, Ryan G Chacon, tHIBAUT G Morillon
  • Presentations

    Asset Pricing from Daily Shopper Spending

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2022
    Atlanta, GA
    October
    2022
    Sponsored by Clark University
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong, Jialu Shen
  • Presentations

    Decarbonizing Institutional Investor Portfolios

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2022
    Atlanta, GA
    October
    2022
    Sponsored by Clark University
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    American Finance Association Annual Meeting 2022
    Virtual
    January
    2022
    Sponsored by Northeastern University
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    Northeastern University
    Ocotber
    2022
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Presentations

    Asset Pricing from Daily Shopper Spending

    World Finance Conference 2021
    Online
    August
    2021
    Sponsored by Northeastern University
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong, Jialu Shen
  • Presentations

    Chasing the Beta, Losing the Alpha

    World Finance Conference 2021
    Online
    August
    2021
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Presentations

    Founding Team Dynamics

    Southwestern Finance Association 2021
    Online
    April
    2021
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Presentations

    Chaired a session: Innovation

    Southwestern Finance Association
    Online
    April
    2021
    Sponsored by University of Missouri
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    Southwestern Finance Association Conference 2021 Annual Meeting
    Virtual
    March
    2021
    Sponsored by University of Missouri
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    Eastern Finance Association 2021
    Virtual
    March
    2021
    Sponsored by University of Missouri
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    Southern Finance Association 2021
    Virtual
    November
    2021
    Sponsored by Northeastern University
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Presentations

    Family Trusts, Corporate Control, And Innovation

    Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting 2021
    Captiva Island, FL
    November
    2021
    Sponsored by Northeastern University
    Ruixiang Wang, Eliezer Fich, Adam Yore
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    Northeastern University
    Boston
    October
    2021
    Sponsored by Northeastern University
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Presentations

    Family Trust, Corporate Control and Innovation

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2021
    Denver, CO
    October
    2021
    Sponsored by Northeastern University
    Ruixiang Wang, Eliezer Fich, Adam Yore
  • Presentations

    Asset Pricing from Daily Shopper Spending

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2021
    Denver, CO
    October
    2021
    Sponsored by Northeastern University
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong, Jialu Shen
  • Presentations

    Paid Family Leave and Corporate Innovation

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2021
    Denver CO
    Ocotber
    2021
    Sponsored by Northeastern University
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    University of Missouri
    April
    2020
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Presentations

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data

    Financial Management Association 2020 Annual Meeting Doctorial Consortium
    Virtual
    October
    2020
    Sponsored by University of Missouri
    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Presentations

    Founder Imprinting: Innovation Performance Differences between Founders VersusAgent CEOs

    Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018
    Chicago
    August
    2018
    Sponsored by University of Missouri
    Ruixiang Wang, Rangapriya Kannan-Narasimhan, Pengcheng Zhu
  • Presentations

    Do Family Firms Care For Their Stakeholders? Evidence from the Customer-Supplier Relationship

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2018
    San Diego
    October
    2018
    Sponsored by University of Missouri
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Presentations

    Board Independence and the Monitoring-Advising Trade-Off

    Financial Management Association
    San Diego
    October
    2018
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Presentations

    Why do Some Companies Leave? Evidence on the Factors That Drive Inversions

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2018
    San Diego
    October
    2018
    Sponsored by University of Missouri
    Ruixiang Wang
  • Presentations

    Family Trusts, Corporate Control, and Innovation

    University of Missouri
    2018
    Ruixiang Wang, Eliezer Fich, Adam Yore
  • Presentations

    Founder Imprinting: Innovation Performance Differences between Founders VersusAgent CEOs

    Annual Meeting of the Academy of Finance 2016
    Chicago
    April
    2016
    Sponsored by University of San Diego
    Ruixiang Wang, Rangapriya Kannan-Narasimhan, Pengcheng Zhu
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Family Trusts, Corporate Control, And Innovation

    Ruixiang Wang, Adam Yore, Eliezer Fich
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Blaze New Trails for Others to Follow: Evidence from Scanner Data  

    Ruixiang Wang, Kuntara Pukthuanthong
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Patrolling the Securities Laws: Towards the SEC’s Private Investigation of Founder-CEO Firms

    Ruixiang Wang, Bai Yang, Inder Khurana