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Felix Zhiyu Feng
Office: 439
PACCAR Hall
Fax: 206-543-7472
Email: ffeng(at)uw.edu

Foster School of Business
University of Washington
Box: 353226
Seattle, Washington 98195

Felix Zhiyu Feng

Acting Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics

Education

PhD Duke University (2014)
BA Peking University (2007)

Academic Expertise

corporate finance
corporate governance
financial economics
managerial economics
microeconomics
risk management

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 2019
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame, 2014-present

Selected Publications

  1. “Ignorance Is Bliss: The Screening Effect of (Noisy) Information“
    Journal Article:Feng, F.Z., Wang, W., Wu, Y., and Zhang, G., (forthcoming). The Accounting Review,
  2. “In Search of A Unicorn“
    Journal Article:Feng, F.Z., Luo, Y., and Michaeli B., (forthcoming). Journal of Accounting and Economics,
  3. “Setbacks, Shutdowns, and Overruns“
    Journal Article:Feng, F., Taylor, C.R., Westerfield, M., Zhang, F., (2024). Econometrica, Vol. 92(3), pp. 815-847.
  4. “Renegotiation and Dynamic Inconsistency: Contracting with Non-Exponential Discounting“
    Journal Article:Cetemen, D., Feng, F.Z., Urgun, C., (2023). Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 208(105606),
  5. “Foreign Competition and CEO Risk-Incentive Compensation“
    Journal Article:Erik-Bakke, T., Feng, F.Z., Mahmudi, H., and Zhu, C., (2022). Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 76(102241),
  6. “Dynamic Compensation Under Uncertainty Shocks and Limited Commitment“
    Journal Article:Feng, F. , (2021). The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 56(6), pp. 20-39-2071.
  7. “Caught in the Crossfire: How the Threat of Hedge Fund Activism Affects Creditors“
    Journal Article:Feng, F.Z., Xu, Q., and Zhu Q., (2021). Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 64, pp. 128-143.
  8. “Dynamic Resource Allocation with Hidden Volatility“
    Journal Article:Feng, F. Z., and Westerfield, M, (2021). Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 140(2), pp. 560-581.
  9. “Productivity and Liquidity Management Under Costly Financing“
    Journal Article:Feng, F.Z., Lu, J., and Wang, J., (2020). Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 63,

Working Papers

“The Incentives of SPAC Sponsors” with Tom Nohel, Xuan Tian, Wenyu Wang, and Yufeng Wu
“Buying In and Selling Out: The Dynamic Returns to Investing in Expertise” with Mark Westerfield
“Progress, Delays, and the Timeliness of Reporting” with Gaoqing Zhang