Mei Wang
Professor
Group
Finance and Accounting Group
Areas of expertise
Decisions under risk uncertainty, Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Finance, Behavioral Corporate Finance, Experimental Economics and Experimental Finance, Cross-Cultural Differences, Financial Economics, Banking, Bank
Group
Finance and Accounting Group
Areas of expertise
Decisions under risk uncertainty, Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Finance, Behavioral Corporate Finance, Experimental Economics and Experimental Finance, Cross-Cultural Differences, Financial Economics, Banking, Bank

Recent publications

Finance and Accounting Group

Liu, Y., Wang, M., Yang, X. (accepted pre-print), Earnings optimism in green stocks, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment.

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Huynh, T. L. D., Wang, M., Vo, V. X. (accepted pre-print), Economic policy uncertainty and the Bitcoin market: an investigation in the COVID-19 pandemic with transfer entropy, The Singapore Economic Review.

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Koch, A. K., Huynh, T. L. D., Wang, M. (2024), News sentiment and international equity markets during BREXIT period: a textual and connectedness analysis, Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 29 (1), pp. 5-34.

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Liu, Y., Blankenburg, M., Wang, M. (2023), Earnings expectations of grey and green energy firms: analysis against the background of global climate change mitigation, Energy Economics, Vol. 121, 106692.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Liu, Y., Xie, X., Wang, M. (2023), Energy structure and carbon emission: analysis against the background of the current energy crisis in the EU, Energy Economics, Vol. 280, 128129.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M. (2023), Economic individualism, perceived fairness, and policy preference: a cross-cultural comparison, Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 10 (1), pp. 3-26.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Dlugosch, D., Horn, K., Wang, M. (2023), New experimental evidence on the relationship between home bias, ambiguity aversion and familiarity heuristics, Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 125-126, 106131.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Xie, L., Wang, M., Huynh, T. L. D. (2022), Trust and the stock market reaction to lockdown and reopening announcements: a cross-country evidence, Finance Research Letters, Vol. 46, Part A, 102361.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2022), Trust in government actions during the COVID-19 crisis, Social Indicators Research, Vol. 159 (3), pp. 967–989.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M., Rieger, M. (2022), COVID-19 and the Wuhan diary –how does the overseas Chinese community react to group criticism?, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 37 (4), pp. 637–659.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Dlugosch, D., Wang, M. (2022), Ambiguity, ambiguity aversion and foreign bias: new evidence from international panel data, Journal of Banking & Finance, Vol. 140, 106509.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Huynh, T. L. D., Rieger, M. O., Wang, M. (2022), Cross-country comparison in dishonest behaviour: Germany and East Asian countries, Economics Letters, Vol. 215, 110480.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M. O., Wang, M., Huang, P.-K., Hsu, Y.-L. (2022), Survey evidence on core factors of behavioral biases, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 100, 101912.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M. O., Wang, M., Phan, T. C., Gong, Y. (2022), Trend following or reversal: does culture affect predictions and trading behavior?, Global Finance Journal, Vol. 54, 100769.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M. O., Wang, M., Zhang, Y. (2022), Editorial: China and the world - cultural differences, transmissions and transitions, Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 7, 979552.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Schaewitz, J., Wang, M., Rieger, M. O. (2022), Culture and Institutions: long-lasting effects of communism on risk and time preferences of individuals in Europe, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 202, pp. 785-829.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Burggraf, T., Huynh, T. L. D., Rudolf, M., Wang, M. (2021), Do FEARS drive bitcoin?, Review of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 13 (3), pp. 229-258.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Nguyen, T., Schnur, B., Wang, M. (2021), Taking more risk tomorrow: time horizons and investment decisions, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 28 (6), pp. 459-463.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Yang, X., Liu, Y., Wang, M., Bezama, A., Thrän, D. (2021), Identifying the necessities of regional-based analysis to study Germany’s biogas production development under energy transition, Land : Open Access Journal, Vol. 10 (2), 135.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Wang, M., Hens, T. (2021), Universal time preference, PLOS ONE, Vol. 16 (2), e0245692.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Yang, X., Liu, Y., Thrän, D., Bezama, A., Wang, M. (2021), Effects of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act and environmental, social and economic factors on biogas plant adoption and agricultural land use change, Energy, Sustainability and Society, Vol. 11 (1), 6.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Nerger, G.-L., Huynh, T. L. D., Wang, M. (2021), Which industries benefited from Trump environmental policy news? evidence from industrial stock market reactions, Research in International Business and Finance, Vol. 57, 101418.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Chen, D., Peng, D., Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2021), Institutional and cultural determinants of speed of government responses during COVID-19 pandemic, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 8, 171.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2021), Cognitive reflection and theory of mind of go players, Advances in Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 17 (2), pp. 117-128.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Foecking, N., Wang, M., Huynh, T. L. D. (2021), How do investors react to the data breaches news? empirical evidence from Facebook Inc. during the years 2016–2019, Technology in Society, Vol. 67, 101717.

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Finance and Accounting Group

How do thinking style and motivation influence household sector innovation?

Tian, G., Wang, M., Rieger, M., Block, J. (2021), How do thinking style and motivation influence household sector innovation? evidence from a cross-country survey, International Review of Entrepreneurship, Vol. 19 (2), pp. 201-224.

Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M., Rieger, M., Hausmann, D. (2021), Pre-decisional information acquisition: why do we pay too much for information?, Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 86, 102411.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M., Rieger, M., Reinhardt, D., Massloch, M. (2021), Opinions on technology: a cultural divide between East Asia and Germany?, Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 8 (1), pp. 73-110.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Liu, Y., Yang, X., Wang, M. (2021), Global transmission of returns among financial, traditional energy, renewable energy and carbon markets: new evidence, Energies, Vol. 14 (21), 7286.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Huynh, T. L. D., Burggraf, T., Wang, M. (2020), Gold, platinum, and expected Bitcoin returns, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Vol. 56, 100628.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Schell, D., Wang, M., Huynh, T. L. D. (2020), This time is indeed different: a study on global market reactions to public health crisis, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Vol. 27, 100349.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2020), Secret erosion of the "lockdown"? Patterns in daily activities during the SARS-Cov2 pandemics around the world, Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 7 (3), pp. 223-235.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Huynh, T. L. D., Wang, M., Rieger, M. (2020), How does the email matter to the civic honesty? A comment on Cohn et al. (2019), Business and Society Review, Vol. 125 (4), pp. 387-391.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Phan, T., Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2019), Segmentation of financial clients by attitudes and behavior: a comparison between Switzerland and Vietnam, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Vol. 37 (1), pp. 44-68.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Gong, Y., Wang, M., Dlugosch, D. (2019), Impacts of ambiguity aversion and information uncertainty on momentum: an international study, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Vol. 55, pp. 1-28.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M., Mei, L., Rao, Y., Wang, J. (2019), Do investors post messages differently from mobile devices? the correlation between mobile internet messages posting and stock returns, International Review of Economics, Vol. 66 (4), pp. 423-452.

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Finance and Accounting Group

Liu, Y., Wang, M., Yang, X. (accepted pre-print), Earnings optimism in green stocks, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Huynh, T. L. D., Wang, M., Vo, V. X. (accepted pre-print), Economic policy uncertainty and the Bitcoin market: an investigation in the COVID-19 pandemic with transfer entropy, The Singapore Economic Review.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Koch, A. K., Huynh, T. L. D., Wang, M. (2024), News sentiment and international equity markets during BREXIT period: a textual and connectedness analysis, Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 29 (1), pp. 5-34.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Liu, Y., Blankenburg, M., Wang, M. (2023), Earnings expectations of grey and green energy firms: analysis against the background of global climate change mitigation, Energy Economics, Vol. 121, 106692.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Liu, Y., Xie, X., Wang, M. (2023), Energy structure and carbon emission: analysis against the background of the current energy crisis in the EU, Energy Economics, Vol. 280, 128129.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M. (2023), Economic individualism, perceived fairness, and policy preference: a cross-cultural comparison, Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 10 (1), pp. 3-26.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Dlugosch, D., Horn, K., Wang, M. (2023), New experimental evidence on the relationship between home bias, ambiguity aversion and familiarity heuristics, Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 125-126, 106131.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Xie, L., Wang, M., Huynh, T. L. D. (2022), Trust and the stock market reaction to lockdown and reopening announcements: a cross-country evidence, Finance Research Letters, Vol. 46, Part A, 102361.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2022), Trust in government actions during the COVID-19 crisis, Social Indicators Research, Vol. 159 (3), pp. 967–989.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M., Rieger, M. (2022), COVID-19 and the Wuhan diary –how does the overseas Chinese community react to group criticism?, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 37 (4), pp. 637–659.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Dlugosch, D., Wang, M. (2022), Ambiguity, ambiguity aversion and foreign bias: new evidence from international panel data, Journal of Banking & Finance, Vol. 140, 106509.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Huynh, T. L. D., Rieger, M. O., Wang, M. (2022), Cross-country comparison in dishonest behaviour: Germany and East Asian countries, Economics Letters, Vol. 215, 110480.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M. O., Wang, M., Huang, P.-K., Hsu, Y.-L. (2022), Survey evidence on core factors of behavioral biases, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 100, 101912.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M. O., Wang, M., Phan, T. C., Gong, Y. (2022), Trend following or reversal: does culture affect predictions and trading behavior?, Global Finance Journal, Vol. 54, 100769.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M. O., Wang, M., Zhang, Y. (2022), Editorial: China and the world - cultural differences, transmissions and transitions, Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 7, 979552.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Schaewitz, J., Wang, M., Rieger, M. O. (2022), Culture and Institutions: long-lasting effects of communism on risk and time preferences of individuals in Europe, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 202, pp. 785-829.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Burggraf, T., Huynh, T. L. D., Rudolf, M., Wang, M. (2021), Do FEARS drive bitcoin?, Review of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 13 (3), pp. 229-258.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Nguyen, T., Schnur, B., Wang, M. (2021), Taking more risk tomorrow: time horizons and investment decisions, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 28 (6), pp. 459-463.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Yang, X., Liu, Y., Wang, M., Bezama, A., Thrän, D. (2021), Identifying the necessities of regional-based analysis to study Germany’s biogas production development under energy transition, Land : Open Access Journal, Vol. 10 (2), 135.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Wang, M., Hens, T. (2021), Universal time preference, PLOS ONE, Vol. 16 (2), e0245692.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Yang, X., Liu, Y., Thrän, D., Bezama, A., Wang, M. (2021), Effects of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act and environmental, social and economic factors on biogas plant adoption and agricultural land use change, Energy, Sustainability and Society, Vol. 11 (1), 6.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Nerger, G.-L., Huynh, T. L. D., Wang, M. (2021), Which industries benefited from Trump environmental policy news? evidence from industrial stock market reactions, Research in International Business and Finance, Vol. 57, 101418.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Chen, D., Peng, D., Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2021), Institutional and cultural determinants of speed of government responses during COVID-19 pandemic, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 8, 171.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2021), Cognitive reflection and theory of mind of go players, Advances in Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 17 (2), pp. 117-128.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Foecking, N., Wang, M., Huynh, T. L. D. (2021), How do investors react to the data breaches news? empirical evidence from Facebook Inc. during the years 2016–2019, Technology in Society, Vol. 67, 101717.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

How do thinking style and motivation influence household sector innovation?

Tian, G., Wang, M., Rieger, M., Block, J. (2021), How do thinking style and motivation influence household sector innovation? evidence from a cross-country survey, International Review of Entrepreneurship, Vol. 19 (2), pp. 201-224.

Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M., Rieger, M., Hausmann, D. (2021), Pre-decisional information acquisition: why do we pay too much for information?, Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 86, 102411.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M., Rieger, M., Reinhardt, D., Massloch, M. (2021), Opinions on technology: a cultural divide between East Asia and Germany?, Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 8 (1), pp. 73-110.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Liu, Y., Yang, X., Wang, M. (2021), Global transmission of returns among financial, traditional energy, renewable energy and carbon markets: new evidence, Energies, Vol. 14 (21), 7286.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Huynh, T. L. D., Burggraf, T., Wang, M. (2020), Gold, platinum, and expected Bitcoin returns, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Vol. 56, 100628.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Schell, D., Wang, M., Huynh, T. L. D. (2020), This time is indeed different: a study on global market reactions to public health crisis, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Vol. 27, 100349.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2020), Secret erosion of the "lockdown"? Patterns in daily activities during the SARS-Cov2 pandemics around the world, Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 7 (3), pp. 223-235.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Huynh, T. L. D., Wang, M., Rieger, M. (2020), How does the email matter to the civic honesty? A comment on Cohn et al. (2019), Business and Society Review, Vol. 125 (4), pp. 387-391.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Phan, T., Rieger, M., Wang, M. (2019), Segmentation of financial clients by attitudes and behavior: a comparison between Switzerland and Vietnam, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Vol. 37 (1), pp. 44-68.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Gong, Y., Wang, M., Dlugosch, D. (2019), Impacts of ambiguity aversion and information uncertainty on momentum: an international study, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Vol. 55, pp. 1-28.

Download
Finance and Accounting Group

Wang, M., Mei, L., Rao, Y., Wang, J. (2019), Do investors post messages differently from mobile devices? the correlation between mobile internet messages posting and stock returns, International Review of Economics, Vol. 66 (4), pp. 423-452.

Download