Jun Qian, PhD
Associate Professor - Finance Department
Professor Qian received his PhD from University of Pennsylvania and his BS degree from University of Iowa. He also attended Fudan University in Shanghai, China as an undergraduate. His research interests span many subjects and topics of theoretical and empirical corporate finance and financial institutions. One of the key questions that he addresses is how financial contracts connect laws & institutions and economic & financial outcomes at firm-, industry- and country-levels. He also applies financial economic theories to the development of financial systems in emerging markets. He is a member of the American Finance Association and Western Finance Association, and a Research Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.
Professor Qian teaches the core corporate finance course (MF127) at the undergraduate level, and the corporate finance theory course (MF881) at the graduate level in the Carroll School of Management. He was a co-organizer of the First Annual Boston College Finance Advisory Board Conference and Finance Department Weekly Seminar Series (2002-2005).
Representative Publications:
Law, finance, and economic growth in China (with F. Allen and M. Qian), 2005, Journal of Financial Economics 77 (1), 57-116.
Optimal toeholds in takeover contests (with E. Goldman), 2005, Journal of Financial Economics, 77(2), 321-346.
Endogenous financial intermediation and real effects of capital account liberalization, (with G. Alessandria), 2005, Journal of International Economics, 67 (1), 97-128.
Buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts, and investment decisions of money managers (with Y. Cheng and M. Liu), 2006, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis 41 (1), 51-83.
How laws & institutions shape financial contract? The case of bank loans (with P. Strahan), 2006, forthcoming, Journal of Finance.
Selected Working Papers:
The role of high-water marks in hedge fund compensation (with G. Aragon);
Are fairness opinions fair? The case of mergers and acquisitions (with D. Kisgen and W. Song);
Financing firms in India (with F. Allen, R. Chakrabarti, S. De and M. Qian);
Corruption and competition (with F. Allen).
Carroll School of Management
Fulton Hall 332
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
jun.qian@bc.edu
phone: 617-552-3145
web site: http://www2.bc.edu/~qianju/
