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Jiankang Zhang B.Sc. (Zheng Zhou), M.Sc. (Northern Jiaotong), M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor (Economics) Office: D-887 Loeb, 613-520-2600 x 3774 E-mail: jiankang_zhang [at] carleton [dot] ca Web site: http://www.carleton.ca/~jzhang/ Languages spoken other than English: Chinese (Mandarin) |
Research fields: microeconomic theory, financial economics, decision theory
Expertise:
• expected utility and non-expected utility
• uncertainty and ambiguity theory
• asset pricing
• financial crises
Selected publications:
“Optimal Dividend Payouts under Jump-Diffusion Risk Processes” (with Jiezhong Zou and Zhenzhong Zhang), Stochastic Models, Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 2009), pp. 332–347.
“Subjective Ambiguity, Expected Utility and Choquet Expected Utility,” Economic Theory, Vol. 20, No. 1 (August 2002), pp. 159–181.
“Subjective Probabilities on Subjectively Unambiguous Events” (with Larry G. Epstein), Econometrica, Vol. 69, No. 2 (March 2001), pp. 265–306 (lead article).
“Least Convex Capacities” (with Larry G. Epstein), Economic Theory, Vol. 13, No. 2 (February 1999), pp. 263–286 (lead article).
Short biography:
Jiankang Zhang received his M.Sc. from Beijing Jiaotong University in China, his M.A. from the University of Windsor, and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has undertaken research on a wide range of topics including decision theory under uncertainty, expected utility and non-expected utility, asset pricing, and financial economics. His work has been published in a variety of journals including Econometrica, Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, and others. He has held faculty positions at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton University, and a visiting position at Shandong University in China.