The Harold W. MacDowell award for qualities of and dedication to scholarship

The 25th Chicago Quantitative Alliance Annual Academic Competition, Second Prize

Cubist Systematic Strategies Award for Outstanding Research

Best Paper Award at the 4th Annual Young Scholars Finance Consortium

Crowell Memorial Award for Best Paper in Quantitative Investments Finalist

The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance
2018

Winner of the Q Group Jack Treynor Prize

Common Risk Factors in Cryptocurrency

How Does Shareholder Governance Affect the Cost of Borrowing? Evidence from the Passage of Anti-Takeover Provisions

Going Green: The Governance Role of Environmental Regulations on Firm Innovation and Value

Xi Wu, with Yukun Liu and Aleh Tsyvinski

Accounting for Cryptocurrency Value

Xi Wu

Regulations as Automatic Stabilizers

SEC Regulations and Firms. Working Paper

Baruch Lev and Xi Wu

Identifying Overvalued Stocks with Corporate Job Postings

Xi Wu, with Yukun Liu

Labor Links and Shock Transmissions

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Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

UGBA 102A Financial Accounting

PHDBA 229A Doctoral Seminar in Accounting I

Xi Wu is an assistant professor in the Accounting Group at Haas School of Business. Her work focuses on the intersection of securities regulation, corporate governance, valuation, and Fintech. Her current research centers on how regulations affect firms, how managers and creditors use information to address agency issues, and how to use newly available data to value firms and cryptocurrencies. 

Wu has received several research awards, including the Q-Group Jack Treynor Prize for superior work in the field of investment management and financial markets, the Cubist Systematic Strategies Award for Outstanding Research, the 25th Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Annual Academic Competition, and the Best Paper at the 4th Annual Young Scholars Finance Consortium. Her research has been presented at government organizations and top hedge funds in the industry. 

Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Wu received her PhD in accounting from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and a BA in mathematics and economics from Cornell University.

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