Jingxuan (Jing) Zhang
Assistant Professor of Finance
Department of Finance, Alberta School of Business
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Email: jingxuan.zhang@ualberta.ca
Research Interests
Corporate Innovation, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurial Finance, Initial Public Offerings, Empirical Corporate Finance
Publication
1. Denys Glushkov, Ajay Khorana, P. Raghavendra Rau and Jingxuan Zhang (2018), "Why Do Firms Go Public Through Debt Instead of Equity?", Critical Finance Review, 7(1), pp. 85-110.
Working Papers
1. Freeing Up (Burdened) Resources: Empirical Evidence from Firms' Secondary Market Patent Transactions (solo-authored)
This paper subsumes a previous version circulated as "Why Do Innovative Firms Sell Patents? An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants and Implications of Patent Transactions"
Conferences: 2022 American Finance Association (AFA) Ph.D. Session, 2022 Northern Finance Association (NFA), 2022 Financial Management Association (FMA) Doctoral Consortium, 2022 FMA Special Ph.D. Paper Presentation, 3rd Annual Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference, 2023 Finance Down Under, 2024 RCEA (Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) International Conference (scheduled), 2024 China International Conference in Finance (CICF) (scheduled).
2. Venture Capital and Value Creation in the Product Market: Evidence from the Nielsen Retail Scanner Data (with Xi Chen, University of Houston)
Conferences: 2022 Midwest Finance Association (MFA), 2022 Eastern Finance Association (EFA)*, 2022 China International Conference in Finance (CICF), 2022 Northern Finance Association (NFA) (cancelled due to visa reason)*, 2022 Financial Management Association (FMA)*, 2024 ASSA-AFE*
3. The Dynamics of Venture Capital Syndicates: The Effect of Prior Collaboration among VCs on Value Addition to Entrepreneurial Firms (with Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College; Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa; and Xiang Zheng, University of Connecticut)
Conference: 2023 Financial Management Association (FMA)
4. Initial Public Offerings and Product Market Dynamics: New Perspectives from the Nielsen Retail Scanner Data (with Xi Chen, University of Houston)
Runner-up for the Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, 2023 Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting
Conferences: 2023 Midwest Finance Association (MFA), 2023 Eastern Finance Association (EFA)*
(*: presented by co-author(s))