Dr. Rex Wang Renjie is an Associate Professor of Finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He coordinates the Climate and Sustainable Finance master track and teaches Climate Risk Assessment for the Financial Sector, as well as Corporate Finance: Theory and Empirics in the Honours Programme in Corporate Finance. He holds a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam (2019).
His primary research agenda investigates how the design of corporate bonds and the behavior of institutional investors shape capital allocation and risk transmission across credit and equity markets, and how these dynamics ultimately affect corporate investment, firm value, and market efficiency. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, the Review of Finance, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and featured in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Institutional Investor, and the Financial Times.
A second, complementary research agenda addresses emerging sources of risk in financial markets. One strand examines the financial implications of generative AI, investigating how equity markets price the novel social risks introduced by new AI technologies. Another strand, funded by a competitive Dutch Research Council (NWO) grant, focuses on the intersection of geopolitical risk and financial stability, developing market-based methodologies to measure the geopolitical risk exposure of financial institutions.
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