Wei Wang

Queen's University - Smith School of Business

Professor of Finance

Queen's University-Smith School of Business

143 Union Street

Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6

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1.

How Costly Is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO?

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How Costly Is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2016
B. Espen Eckbo, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Norwegian School of Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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labor market capital, personal bankruptcy costs, turnover, career change, CEO compensation, wealth loss

How Costly is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10985
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Dec 2015
B. Espen Eckbo, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Norwegian School of Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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career change, CEO compensation, labor market capital, personal bankruptcy costs, turnover, wealth loss

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Hedge Funds and Chapter 11

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 29 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2011
Wei Jiang, Kai Li and Wei Wang
Emory University Goizueta Business School, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Hedge funds, Chapter 11, Loan-to-own, APR deviation, Creditor rights

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The Real Effects of Implicit Government Guarantee: Evidence from Chinese SOE Defaults

Management Science
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2022
Shuang Jin, Wei Wang and Zilong Zhang
HKUST, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Zhejiang University
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implicit government guarantee, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), investment, corporate bonds, default, financial constraint

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Global Zombie Companies

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 03 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2024
Edward I. Altman, Rui Dai and Wei Wang
New York University (NYU) - Salomon Center, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Zombie Firms, Financial Distress, Interest Coverage, Z-Score, COVID-19, High-yield Debt, Creditor Rights, Bankruptcy Code

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Bankrupt Innovative Firms

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Bankrupt Innovative Firms

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2021
Song Ma, (Joy) Tianjiao Tong and Wei Wang
Yale School of Management, Ivey Business School, Western University and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Failed Firms, Innovation, Patent, Bankruptcy, Creditor Control

Bankrupt Innovative Firms

NBER Working Paper No. w28856
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 31 May 2021 Last Revised: 07 May 2023
Song Ma, (Joy) Tianjiao Tong and Wei Wang
Yale School of Management, Ivey Business School, Western University and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Loans to Chapter 11 Firms: Contract Design, Repayment Risk, and Pricing

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 794/2021, Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 May 2019 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2023
B. Espen Eckbo, Kai Li and Wei Wang
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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debtor-in-possession financing, Chapter 11; loan spreads, loan fees, default risk, leveraged loans, relationship lending, rent extraction

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Dissecting Bankruptcy Frictions

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 20 May 2019 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2021
Winston Wei Dou, Lucian A. Taylor, Wei Wang and Wenyu Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, 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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Executive Lawyers: Gatekeepers or Strategic Officers?

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Executive Lawyers: Gatekeepers or Strategic Officers?

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2016
Adair Morse, Wei Wang and Serena Wu
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University
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General Counsel, gatekeepers, lawyers, internal governance, equity incentives, fraud, litigation, insider trading, backdating

Executive Lawyers: Gatekeepers or Strategic Officers?

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2016
Adair Morse, Wei Wang and Serena Wu
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University
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General Counsel, gatekeepers, lawyers, internal governance, equity incentives, fraud, litigation, insider trading, backdating

Executive Lawyers: Gatekeepers or Strategic Officers?

NBER Working Paper No. w22597
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2023
Adair Morse, Wei Wang and Serena Wu
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University
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Financial Costs of Judicial Inexperience: Evidence from Corporate Bankruptcies

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022
Benjamin Charles Iverson, Joshua Madsen, Wei Wang and Qiping Xu
Brigham Young University, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
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bankruptcy judges, human capital, learning by doing, job-specific skills, inexperience

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Simultaneous Debt-Equity Holdings and The Resolution of Financial Distress

Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 18-66, 31st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2018
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 30 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2020
Yongqiang Chu, Ha Diep-Nguyen, Jun Wang, Wei Wang and Wenyu Wang
Belk College of Business, UNC Charlotte, Purdue University, Krannert School of Management, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
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financial distress; bankruptcy; out-of-court restructuring; simultaneous holding; debt; equity

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Debtor-in-Possession Financing, Loan-to-Loan, and Loan-to-Own

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2016
Kai Li and Wei Wang
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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DIP financing; activist investors; board turnover; CEO turnover; Chapter 11; creditor control; loan-to-own; loan-to-loan

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Provision of Management Incentives in Bankrupt Firms

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2015
Vidhan K. Goyal and Wei Wang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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key employee retention plans, incentive contract, Chapter 11, compensation, retention bonuses, credito control, human capital

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Assessing Default Probabilities from Structural Credit Risk Models

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 27 Apr 2006
Wei Wang and Wulin Suo
Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Default Probabilities, Structural Model, Credit Risk, Corporate Bonds

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Debt Maturity and Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Default Risk Changes

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Vol. 48, Issue 3, pp 789-817, 2013
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 19 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2014
Vidhan K. Goyal and Wei Wang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Debt Maturity, Debt Issuance, Default Risk, Signaling, Timing, Distance-to-Default, Asset Volatility

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What's in a 'China' Name? A Test of Investor Attention Hypothesis

Financial Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 May 2009 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2011
Kee-Hong Bae and Wei Wang
York University - Schulich School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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China-name Stocks, Investor Attention, Initial Public Offering, American Depositary Receipt

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SEC Scrutiny Shopping

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 08 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2020
Paul Calluzzo, Wei Wang and Serena Wu
Queen's University - Smith School of Business, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University
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regulatory enforcement, SEC regulation, forum shopping, corporate relocation

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The Cost of Intermediary Market Power for Distressed Borrowers

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 25 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2024
Winston Wei Dou, Wei Wang and Wenyu Wang
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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Collusion in Syndication, Bankruptcy and Distress, Intermediary Asset Pricing with Imperfect Competition, Bayesian MCMC, Antitrust Policy. (JEL: G12, G23, G30, L13)

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The Costs of Bankruptcy Restructuring

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2022
Wei Wang
Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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financial distress, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, costs, delay, hedge funds, secured creditors, asset sale

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The Value of Familiarity: Evidence from Lawyer-Judge Interactions in Corporate Bankruptcy

HKUST Business School Research Paper No. 2020-019
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2025
Vidhan K. Goyal, Joshua Madsen and Wei Wang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
Downloads 370 (174,072)
Citation 1

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network, preferences, lawyers, Chapter 11, corporate bankruptcy, law firms, judges, familiarity, bankruptcy costs, law firms, debt recovery

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The Changing Face of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Insights from Recent Trends and Research

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The Changing Face of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Insights from Recent Trends and Research

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 15, pp. 351-367, 2023
Posted: 07 Nov 2023
Edith S. Hotchkiss, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Norwegian School of Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business

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The Changing Face of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Insights from Recent Trends and Research

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Nov 2022
Edith S. Hotchkiss, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Norwegian School of Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Bankruptcy, Chapter 11, Defaults, Distressed Debt, Recovery Rate, 363 Sales, Private Equity, Creditor Rights, Leveraged Loans

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Hedge Fund Shadow Trading: Evidence from Corporate Bankruptcies

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 11 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2025
Wei Wang, Yan Yang and Jingyu Zhang
Queen's University - Smith School of Business, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Bankruptcy, Hedge Funds, Material Nonpublic Information, Informed Trading, Insider Trading, Shadow Trading JEL classification: G14, G23, G33, K22

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Do Bondholders Value Senior Loan Lender Control Rights?

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2017
Bo Li, Lynnette D. Purda and Wei Wang
Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Creditor control; creditor conflict; covenants; syndicated loans; corporate bonds; governance

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Global Insolvency and Cross-border Capital Flows

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 25 Sep 2024
Yeejin Jang, Jenny Jihyun Tak and Wei Wang
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Banking and Finance, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Banking and Finance and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Chapter 15, bankruptcy, cross-border M&A, multinational companies JEL classification: G33, Model Law, Global Insolvency

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Senior Lender Control: Monitoring Spillover or Creditor Conflict?

PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2020
Bo Li, Lynnette D. Purda and Wei Wang
Peking University - Guanghua School of Management, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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delegated monitoring, creditor conflict, lender control rights, loan covenants, corporate bonds

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Default and Bankruptcy Resolution in China

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Default and Bankruptcy Resolution in China

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 15, pp. 369-385, 2023
Posted: 07 Nov 2023
Edith S. Hotchkiss, Kose John, Bo Li, Jacopo Ponticelli and Wei Wang
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Peking University - Guanghua School of Management, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Queen's University - Smith School of Business

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Default and Bankruptcy Resolution in China

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2023
Edith S. Hotchkiss, Kose John, Bo Li, Jacopo Ponticelli and Wei Wang
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Peking University - Guanghua School of Management, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Bankruptcy law, non-performing loans, shadow banks, bond markets, default, restructuring.

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Valuation Effects along the Technology Channel: Evidence from Corporate Bankruptcies

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2017
Jiaping Qiu, Jin Wang and Wei Wang
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University - Lazaridis School of Business & Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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bankruptcy, distress, technology, innovation, economic linkage, spillover

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Polluted IPOs

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 31 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2024
Meng Miao, Wei Wang and Zhengyu Zuo
Renmin University of China - School of Finance, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Renmin University of China
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Air Pollution, PM2.5, IPO, Regulatory Oversight, Cognitive Ability

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Explaining Debt Recovery Using an Endogenous Bankruptcy Model

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Explaining Debt Recovery Using an Endogenous Bankruptcy Model

Midwest Finance Association 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2013
Wulin Suo, Wei Wang and Amber Qi Zhang
Queen's University - Smith School of Business, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University
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Bankruptcy, Debt Recovery, Structural Model, Bankruptcy Cost, Agency Conflict

Explaining Debt Recovery Using an Endogenous Bankruptcy Model

Journal of Fixed Income, Forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.3905/jfi.2013.23.2.114
Posted: 21 May 2019
Wulin Suo, Wei Wang and Amber Qi Zhang
Queen's University - Smith School of Business, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University

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Bankruptcy, Debt Recovery, Structural Model, Bankruptcy Cost, Agency Conflict

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The Disappeared Outperformance of Post-reorg Equity

The Journal of Alternative Investments, Winter 2023, 25 (3) 118 - 137 DOI: 10.3905/jai.2022.1.180
Posted: 18 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2024
Wei Jiang, Wei Wang and Yan Yang
Emory University Goizueta Business School, Queen's University - Smith School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business

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bankruptcy, stock returns, over-the-counter (OTC) market, earnings announcement, institutional ownership

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Recovery and Returns of Distressed Bonds in Bankruptcy

Journal of Fixed Income, Forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.3905/jfi.2011.21.1.021
Posted: 21 May 2019
Wei Wang
Queen's University - Smith School of Business

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distressed bonds, distressed investing, recovery, Chapter 11