个人主页 - Yuzheng Wang (王煜正)

Yuzheng Wang (王煜正)

I am a Graduate Student in Economics Research Intensive Track at Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, the University of Chicago.

My research interests span the fields of institutional economics, quantitative financial history, and financial economics of insurance.

My recent research project focuses on the origins of financial organizations in China.

Research

Publications

"The Impact of Long-Term Care Insurance on Family Intergenerational Transfers" (with Zaigui Yang, and Naiqi Wang). 2024. Volume 16, Number 1. Chinese Review of Financial Studies.

Working Papers

"The Risk of Reputation: When Trust Creates Capital Strain in Insurance" (with Hairuo Guo, Xianfu Jiao, and Sujin Zheng).
"Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence: The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody" (with Shuo Chen, Xinyu Fan, and Xuanyi Wang).
"State Apparatus and Private Revenge in Pre-modern China: The Decline of Xiayi" (with Shuo Chen, Xinyu Fan, and Bo Yang).

Working in Progress

"Economies of Identity and Scale: Legitimate Intermediaries and Market Efficiency in China, 1650–1911".
"The Financial Legacy of Lijin: Taxation and the Origins of Financial Organizations in China, 1800–1911".

Teaching

Big Data and Causal Inference Seminar Autumn 2023
Teaching Assistant, Course for Graduate, with Prof. Sicheng Chen, Tsinghua University
Insurance Technology Spring 2023
Teaching Assistant, Course for Graduate, with Prof. Hua Zhou, Central University of Finance and Economics
Camphor Western Plan Summer 2022
Teaching Assistant, Course for Graduate, with Prof. Shilin Zheng, China Academy of Social Sciences

Hobby

Yuzheng Wang studied violin with his mother since childhood. At the age of ten, he studied violin with Prof. Zhinuo Ding, of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, for a total of twelve years. He has participated in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's extracurricular string orchestra for elementary school students and children's choir, and was once the concertmaster of the Central University of Finance and Economics Symphony Orchestra. He is now the principal second violin of the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra.

If today is your birthday, then congratulations! You will receive a Happy Birthday song played on the violin!

Contact Information

Yuzheng Wang
yuzhengwang@uchicago.edu