Wenjuan Xie is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire. She is also the Finance Chairperson of the ACFI Department. From 2019-2022 Dr. Xie served as the Faculty Fellow for Accreditation and Assessment of Paul College. From 2013 to 2018, she was the recipient of the distinguished Virginia Dee Professorship.
Dr. Xie’s research interest is in Equity Markets and Investments Analysis. She also has a significant amount of studies and increasing interests in Corporate Finance, Emerging Markets and Financial Intermediaries. Dr. Xie’s scholarly work has been published in premier and high-impact academic journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Multinational Finance Journal, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Review of Accounting and Finance. In addition, her research was one of the semifinalists for Best Paper Award in Investments at the Financial Management Association 2009 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Xie’s teaching portfolio includes undergraduate Bachelor of Business Administration core courses, undergraduate finance option required courses, and Master of Business Administration elective courses. Her teaching interests focus on investments analysis and stock valuation, which aligns closely with her research expertise. She was nominated several times for the Paul College Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Xie received her BBA and MS in Finance degrees from Peking University in Beijing, China and her Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to her professional services in academia, she was also involved in the work of American Association of University Women (AAUW) and of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) New England Section New Hampshire District.
Recent publications:
Xie, W. (2024). Capital structures of surviving Fortune 500 companies: A retrospective analysis for the past seven decades. In Investment Management and Financial Innovations Vol. 21 (pp. 98-115). LLC CPC Business Perspectives. doi:10.21511/imfi.21(1).2024.09
Lo, M. H., Xie, W., & Xu, L. E. (2019). Assessing investors' earnings expectations: the contextual usefulness of composite forecasts. ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS, 26(3), 223-240. doi:10.1080/16081625.2018.1491316
Xie, W., & Deng, A. (2017). Determinants of and Differences in U. S. and Foreign Commercial Bank Profitability. Global Economy and Finance Journal, 10(1), 12-27.
Elgers, P. T., Lo, M. H., Xie, W., & Xu, L. E. (2016). A Contextual Evaluation of Composite Forecasts of Annual Earnings. REVIEW OF PACIFIC BASIN FINANCIAL MARKETS AND POLICIES, 19(3). doi:10.1142/S0219091516500144
Johnson, W. C., Xie, W., & Yi, S. (2014). Corporate fraud and the value of reputations in the product market. Journal of Corporate Finance, 25, 16-39. doi:10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2013.10.005
