# Yuhang Xing

**Source**: https://business.rice.edu/person/yuhang-xing
**Parent**: https://business.rice.edu/undergraduate-business-major/business-major-faculty

[View CV](https://business.rice.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/cv/Xing__CV-1_2.pdf)

Fields of Interest

Finance

# Yuhang Xing

Associate Professor of Finance

Departments

Faculty

Office

McNair Hall 342

Contact
[713-348-4167](tel:713-348-4167)
[yxing@rice.edu](mailto:yxing@rice.edu)

[View CV](https://business.rice.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/cv/Xing__CV-1_2.pdf)

Fields of Interest

Finance

Yuhang Xing is an associate professor of finance. Professor Xing became a faculty member in July, 2003. She earned her Ph.D. in Finance, with distinction, from the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, in 2003. She received an M.S. in Decision Science and Economics from Northwestern University in 1998 and a B.A., with distinction, in economics from Peking University, Beijing, in 1997. Her research covers a wide range of topics in empirical asset pricing.

#### Teaching Interests:

- Capital Markets & Investments
- Corporate Finance
- Investments

#### Research Interests:

- Empirical Finance

## Rice Business Wisdom

Forecasting | Finance

### [Why Managers Keep Misreading the Future](https://business.rice.edu/wisdom/why-managers-keep-misreading-future)

New research reveals how overreliance on past earnings skews corporate forecasts — and what can be done about it.

Investing | Finance

### [Sentimental Journey](https://business.rice.edu/wisdom/peer-reviewed-research/what-really-drives-stock-returns-sentiment-or-economics)

What really drives stock returns — sentiment or economics?

Investor Behavior | Finance

### [Why Do Retail Investors Hold On to High-Risk Stocks?](https://business.rice.edu/wisdom/peer-reviewed-research/why-do-retail-investors-hold-high-risk-stocks)

Most stocks with a high chance of jackpot payoffs earn abnormally low returns.

Investing | Finance

### [Diamond In The Rough](https://business.rice.edu/wisdom/peer-reviewed-research/mining-possibilities-value-stocks)

Hunting for a deal? Take a look at value stocks, shares that investors think merit higher prices.