Zhiwu Chen is a Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management. He is an expert on finance theory, securities valuation, emerging markets, and China’s economy and capital markets. Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001, Chen began to expand his research focus by going beyond mature markets and investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States, Hong Kong, China, and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy, market development, and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005), Media, Law and Markets (2005), Why Are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich? (2008), Irrational Overconfidence? (2008), The Logic of Finance (2009), 24 Wealth Lectures (2009), and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010).

Last Updated: December 3, 2015

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