Jiekun Huang

*Educational Background *

• Ph.D., Finance, Boston College, 2009
• M.A., Finance (by research), Xiamen University, 2003
• B.Econ., Honors, International Finance, Xiamen University, 2000

*Positions Held *

• Associate Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018 to present
• Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013-2018
• Assistant Professor of Finance, National University of Singapore, 2009-2013

*Recent Publications *

• Dimmock, S., Huang, J., & Weisbenner, S. Forthcoming. Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your High-Skilled Labor: H-1B Lottery Outcomes and Entrepreneurial Success. Management Science. link >
• Brown, J., & Huang, J. (2020). All the President's Friends: Political Access and Firm Value. Journal of Financial Economics, 138 (2), 415–431. link >
• Huang, J., Xu, N., & Yu, H. (2020). Pollution and Performance: Do Investors Make Worse Trades on Hazy Days? Management Science, 66 (10), 4359-4919. link >
• Gao, M., & Huang, J. (2020). Informing the Market: The Effect of Modern Information Technologies on Information Production. Review of Financial Studies, 33 (4), 1367–1411. link >
• He, J., Huang, J., & Zhao, S. (2019). Internalizing Governance Externalities: The Role of Institutional Cross-ownership. Journal of Financial Economics, 134 (2), 400-418. link >

*Honors and Awards *

• Vernon Zimmerman Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois, Gies College of Business, 2019 to present
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, 2020-2021
• WRDS Award for Best Paper on Empirical Finance, Western Finance Association, 2018
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013-2018