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Home | People | Rex Wang Renjie
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Rex Wang Renjie

Research Fellow

University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research field
Finance
Interests
Behavioral Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Finance

Biography

Rex Wang Renjie joined the Finance department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Fall 2019. He conducts empirical research in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate finance and governance, and labor markets of financial agents. Rex obtained his PhD in Finance from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and he holds both a MSc and a BSc degree in econometrics from Erasmus School of Economics.

List of publications

Renjie, \.W., Verwijmeren, P. and Xia, S. (2025). The Corporate Investment Benefits of Mutual Fund Dual Holdings Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 60(2):734--770.

Menkveld, A., Caskurlu, T., Vladimirov, V. and Project\, \.C.A. (2024). Nonstandard Errors The Journal of Finance, 79(3):2339--2390.

Lee, I., Renjie, \.W. and Verwijmeren, P. (2023). How Do Options Add Value? Evidence from the Convertible Bond Market Review of Finance, 27(1):189--222.

Renjie, \.W. and Verwijmeren, P. (2019). Director attention and firm value Financial Management, 49(2):361--387.

Zhu, S., Dekker, R., \van Jaarsveld\, W., Renjie, \.W. and Koning, \AlexJ.\ (2017). An improved method for forecasting spare parts demand using extreme value theory European Journal of Operational Research, 261(1):169--181.