Iris Wang


Ph.D. Candidate in Finance
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia

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Email: iris.wang@sauder.ubc.ca

Address: HA 884B – 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada

Phone: +1 (778) 682-9643


Research Interests

Primary: Corporate Governance, Labor and Finance
Secondary: FinTech, Entrepreneurship

I am on the finance job market during the 2022 - 2023 academic year.


Working Papers


[1] Quality of Proxy Advice: Evidence from Say-on-Pay Recommendations (Job market paper)

Internet Appendix


[2] Mutual Fund Disagreement and Firm Value: Passive vs. Active Voice (with Jan Bena)

*Semi-finalist for FMA Best Paper Award


[3] Owner Culture and Pay Inequality within Firms (with Jan Bena and Guangli Lu)

*CSEF/UniCredit Foundation Best Paper Award


Work in Progress


[4] The Culture Origin of Gender Gaps in Pay and Mobility (with Jan Bena, Ha Diep-Nguyen, Quoc-anh Do, and Kieu-Trang Nguyen )

[5] Smart Contracts’ Governance: A New Order for Economic Activity? (with Jan Bena and Xiaoxia Hao)

[6] The Returns to Startup Investment (with Will Gornall and Ting Xu )