Winston Dou

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Assistant Professor of Finance

2318 Steinberg Hall - Dietrich Hall

3620 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

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Measuring 'Dark Matter' in Asset Pricing Models

NBER Working Paper Series, The Rodney L. White Center Working Papers Series at the Wharton School, The Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Working Papers Series, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2020
Hui Chen, Winston Dou and Leonid Kogan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Fragile beliefs, Unstable models, Misspecification and robustness, Out-of-sample fit, Semiparametric information bounds

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Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy: A Critical Review from a Finance Perspective

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 17 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2020
Winston Dou, Andrew W. Lo, Ameya Muley and Harald Uhlig
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, MIT and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Macrofinancial Models; Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models; Macroprudential Policy; Systemic Risk; Monetary Policy Analysis

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Competition, Profitability, and Discount Rates

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, The Rodney L. White Center Working Papers Series at the Wharton School, The Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Working Papers Series, Mays Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 14 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2020
Winston Dou, Yan Ji and Wei Wu
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Texas A&M University
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Product-market structure, Oligopoly, Profitability premium, Leadership persistence, Tariff shocks, Price Wars.

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Inalienable Customer Capital, Corporate Liquidity, and Stock Returns

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, The Rodney L. White Center Working Papers Series at the Wharton School, Mays Business School Research Paper No. 3187850
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 15 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2020
Winston Dou, Yan Ji, David Reibstein and Wei Wu
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Texas A&M University
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Brand loyalty, Financial constraints risk, Inalienable human capital, Talent turnover, Marketing

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Dissecting Bankruptcy Frictions

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 20 May 2019 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2020
Winston Dou, Lucian A. Taylor, Wei Wang and Wenyu Wang
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
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Bankruptcy, structural estimation, conflicts of interest, asymmetric information

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External Financing and Customer Capital: A Financial Theory of Markups

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 12 May 2020
Winston Dou and Yan Ji
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Markups, Customer base, External financing costs, Monopolistic competition, Corporate liquidity, Industry dynamics.

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Common Fund Flows: Flow Hedging and Factor Pricing

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 24 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2020
Winston Dou, Leonid Kogan and Wei Wu
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Texas A&M University
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Fund flows, Trade wars, Natural disasters, Heterogeneous agents, Uncertainty, Intermediary asset pricing, Short-termism.

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Macro-Finance Models with Nonlinear Dynamics

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper, The Rodney L. White Center Working Papers Series at the Wharton School
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 23 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2020
Winston Dou, Xiang Fang, Andrew W. Lo and Harald Uhlig
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, The University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Models; Systemic Risk; Endogenous Jump Risk; Financial Constraints; Liquidity

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Feedback and Contagion through Distressed Competition

The Rodney L. White Center Working Papers Series at the Wharton School, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2020
Hui Chen, Winston Dou, Hongye Guo and Yan Ji
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Stock and Bond Returns, Supergames, Predatory Price Wars, Collective Entry Prevention, Tacit Collusion, Financial Distress Anomaly.

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Granular Uncertainty and Disastrous Misallocation

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Apr 2020
Winston Dou, Yan Ji and Pengfei Wang
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and HKUST, Department of Economics
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Misallocation, Firm distribution, Financial constraints, Idiosyncratic shocks, Volatility, Slow recovery, Nonlinear dynamics

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The Oligopoly Lucas Tree: Consumption Risk and Industry-Level Risk Exposure

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 26 May 2020 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2020
Winston Dou, Yan Ji and Wei Wu
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Texas A&M University
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Product market friction, Discount rates, Expected growth, Consumption risk, Strategic rivalry, Natural experiments.

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Supplement to 'Inalienable Customer Capital, Corporate Liquidity, and Stock Returns'

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2020
Winston Dou, Yan Ji, David Reibstein and Wei Wu
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Texas A&M University
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Brand loyalty; Financial constraints risk; Inalienable human capital; Talent turnover; Marketing

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Online Appendix for 'Competition, Profitability, and Discount Rates'

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2020
Winston Dou, Yan Ji and Wei Wu
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Texas A&M University
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Product-market structure, Oligopoly, Profitability premium, Leadership persistence, Tariff shocks, Price Wars.

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Macro-Finance Decoupling: Robust Evaluations of Macro Asset Pricing Models

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Macro-Finance Decoupling: Robust Evaluations of Macro Asset Pricing Models

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 May 2020
Xu Cheng, Winston Dou and Zhipeng Liao
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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Asset Pricing, Conditional Inference, Disaster Risk, Long-Run Risk, Factor Models, Specification Test, Weak Identification

Macro-Finance Decoupling: Robust Evaluations of Macro Asset Pricing Models

PIER Working Paper No. 20-019
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2020
Xu Cheng, Winston Dou and Zhipeng Liao
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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sset Pricing, Conditional Inference, Disaster Risk, Long-Run Risk, Factor Models, Specification Test, Weak Identification

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Ensemble Subsampling for Imbalanced Multivariate Two-Sample Tests

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2019
Lisha Chen, Winston Dou and Zhihua Qiao
Yale University - Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Independent
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Corporate Finance, ensemble methods, imbalanced learning, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, nearest neighbors methods, subsampling methods, multivariate two-sample tests

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Estimation in Functional Regression for General Exponential Families

The Annals of Statistics. Volume 40, Number 5 (2012), pp. 2421-2451
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2020
Winston Dou, David Pollard and Harrison Zhou
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Independent and Statistics Department of Yale University
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Approximation of compact operators, Assouad’s lemma, exponential families, functional estimation, minimax rates of convergence

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Online Appendix for 'Measuring the 'Dark Matter' in Asset Pricing Models'

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2020
Hui Chen, Winston Dou and Leonid Kogan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 17 (585,570)
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Fragile beliefs, Unstable models, Misspecification and robustness, Out-of-sample fit, Semiparametric information bounds.

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Supplemental Appendix to Macro-Finance Decoupling: Robust Evaluations of Macro Asset Pricing Models

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 May 2020
Xu Cheng, Winston Dou and Zhipeng Liao
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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Asset Pricing, Conditional Inference, Disaster Risk, Long-Run Risk, Factor Models, Specification Test, Weak Identification

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Online Appendix for 'Feedback and Contagion through Distressed Competition'

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2020
Hui Chen, Winston Dou, Hongye Guo and Yan Ji
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
Downloads 7 (654,213)

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Stock and Bond Returns, Predatory Price Wars, Collective Entry Prevention, Tacit Collusion, Financial Distress Anomaly

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Online Appendix for "The Oligopoly Lucas Tree: Consumption Risk and Industry-Level Risk Exposure"

Number of pages: 21
Winston Dou, Yan Ji and Wei Wu
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Texas A&M University - Mays Business School
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Product market friction, Discount rates, Expected growth, Consumption risk, Strategic rivalry, Natural experiments.

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Online Appendix for “External Financing and Customer Capital: A Financial Theory of Markups”

Number of pages: 14
Winston Dou and Yan Ji
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Markups, Customer base, External financing costs, Monopolistic competition, Corporate liquidity, Industry dynamics.