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Visiting Associate Professor
Wenlan Qian
Ph.D., Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: Household Finance; Real Estate; Digitization, E-Commerce, and FinTech; Short Sellers; Financial Intermediaries
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wenlan.qian@nus.edu.sg
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Biography
Research Interests: 
Household Finance; Real Estate; Digitization, E-Commerce, and FinTech; Short Sellers; Financial Intermediaries

Academic Appointments:
NUS Business School, National University of Singapore
2016-present Associate Professor of Finance
2018-present Dean’s Chair
2008-2015 Assistant Professor of Finance
Institute of Real Estate Studies, National University of Singapore
2017-present Deputy Director (Research)

Education: 
Ph.D., Business Administration (Finance and Real Estate), Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, 2008
B.A., Economics (with honors), Shanghai International Studies University, 1998
Publications:
1. Cheng, J., W. Qian, and D. Reeb, 2019, “The Ownership Complaint Gap: Mutual vs. Stock Intermediaries”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming
2. Agarwal, S., W. Qian, B. Yeung, and X. Zou, 2019, “Mobile Wallet and Entrepreneurial Growth”, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 109,48-53
3. Agarwal, S., W. Qian, A. Seru, and J. Zhang, 2018, “Disguised Corruption: Evidence from Consumer Credit in China”, Journal of Financial Economics forthcoming
4. Agarwal, S., J. Pan, and W. Qian, 2018, “The Age of Decision: Pension Savings Withdrawal and Consumption and Debt Responses”, Management Science forthcoming
5. Agarwal, S. and W. Qian, 2017, “Access to Home Equity and Consumption: Evidence from a Policy Experiment”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(1), 40-52
6. Ljungqvist, A. and W. Qian, 2016, “How Constraining are Limits to Arbitrage?”, Review of Financial Studies, 29(8), 1975-2028
Award for Best Paper in Asset Pricing, SFS Cavalcade, 2014
Blackrock Research Award for the Best Paper in Capital Market, ABFC, 2014
CAMRI Applied Finance Research Grant, 2014
7. Agarwal, S., W. Qian, D. Reeb, and T. F. Sing, 2016, “Playing the Boys Game: Golf Buddies and Board Diversity”, American Economic Review Paper and Proceedings, 106(5), 272-276
8. Fu, Y., W. Qian, and B. Yeung, 2016, “Speculative Investors and Transaction Tax: Evidence from the Housing Market”, Management Science, 62(11), 3254–3270
Best Paper Award, first prize, Global Chinese Real Estate Congress, 2012
IMAS-CAMRI Applied Finance Research Grant, 2011
9. Agarwal, S., Y. Deng, C. Luo, and W. Qian, 2016, “The Hidden Peril: the Role of the Condominium Loan Market in the Recent Financial Crisis”, Review of Finance, 20(2), 467-500
10. Massa, M., W. Qian, W. Xu, and H. Zhang, 2015, “Competition of the Informed: Does the Presence of Short Sellers Affect Insider Selling?”, Journal of Financial Economics, 118(2), 268-288
11. Agarwal, S., J. Pan, and W. Qian, 2015, “The Composition Effect of Consumption around Retirement: Evidence from Singapore”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 105(5), 426-431
12. Agarwal, S. and W. Qian, 2014, “Consumption and Debt Response to Unanticipated Income Shocks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Singapore”, American Economic Review, 104(12), 4205-4230
Grant award from NBER Household Finance Group/Sloan Foundation, 2013
13. Fu, Y. and W. Qian, 2014, “Short-term Speculators and Price Overreaction in the Housing Market”, Real Estate Economics, 42(4), 977-1007
14. Edelstein, R. and W. Qian, 2014, “Short Term Buyers and Housing Market Dynamics”, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 49(4), 654-689
Best Paper Award, AREUEA/AsRES Conference, 2009
15. Qian, W., 2013, “Why do Sellers Hold Out in the Down Market? An Option-based Explanation”, Real Estate Economics, 41(2), 384-417
16. Edelstein, R., W. Qian, and Desmond Tsang, 2011, “How do Institutional Factors Influence International Real Estate Returns?”, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 43(1): 130-151.
 
Selected Working Papers:  
17. Housing Booms and Shirking (with Q. Gu and J. He)
18. Mortgage Debt, Hand-to-Mouth Households and Monetary Policy Transmission (with S. Agarwal, Y. Deng, Q. Gu, J. He, and Y. Ren)
19. Does E-Commerce Crowd out Consumer Spending Offline? (with H. Chen)
20. Sticky Expectations in the Housing Market: Evidence from House Purchase Restriction Policy (with H. Tu, J. Wu, and W. Xu)