Hello, I am Xiaoqin (Alex) Wei. I earned my PhD in Accounting and Finance in Spring 2026 at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. I warmly welcome discussions on research. My research interests broadly include, but are not limited to:

AI related topics – AI ethic, AI technique, AI application
Empirical corporate finance – IPO survival, IPO underpricing, IPO long-run performance, Cash holding, Cash flow volatility, Corporate risk, Crash risk, M&A, Corporate outcome
Empirical asset pricing – Stock return, Stock volatility, Cyptocurrency

Corporate governance – Executive compensation, Internal corporate governance, Institutional investors, Corporate lobbyings

Organization strategey – Executive behaviours, Organization capital, Intangiable assets, Brand assets, Corporate culture

CEO characteristics – CEO overconfidence, CEO social capital
Text analysis – SEC fillings, Policy news, Financial news, FinBERT

Macroeconomic – Forecasting, Empirical macroeconomics, Macroprudential policies

Government policy – Policy evaluation, Government intervention, Government buffering, International finance

I uses SAS, Python, and Stata, along with a strong interests in Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques.