Research


Publications

  1. JEF
    Is Machine Learning a Necessity? A Regression-based Approach for Stock Return Prediction
    Tingting Cheng, Shan Jiang, Albert Bo Zhao, and Junyi Zhao
    Journal of Empirical Finance 2025
  2. FRL
    Complete Subset Averaging Methods in Corporate Bond Return Prediction
    Tingting Cheng, Shan Jiang, Albert Bo Zhao, and Zhimin Jia
    Finance Research Letters 2023
  3. JEF
    Stock Return Prediction: Stacking a Variety of Models
    Tingting Cheng, and Albert Bo Zhao
    Journal of Empirical Finance 2022
  4. PBFJ
    The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Volatility Connectedness Network of Global Stock Market
    Tingting Cheng, Junli Liu, Wenying Yao, and Albert Bo Zhao
    Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 2022

Working papers

  1. Direction is more important than speed: A comparison of direction and value prediction of stock returns
    Tingting Cheng, Yitong Shang, and Albert Bo Zhao
  2. Does Securities Regulation Matter? Mandatory Disclosure, Excess Stock Volatility and the U.S. 1934 Securities Exchange Act
    Sheng Li, Chenggang Xu, and Albert Bo Zhao
    R & R at Journal of Law and Economics
  3. Corporate Bond Return Prediction: An Ensemble Learning Approach
    Tingting Cheng, Shan Jiang, Hai LinChunchi Wu, and Albert Bo Zhao
  4. Multi-task Incentives in Bureaucracy: Theory and Evidence from China
    Chenggang XuAlbert Bo Zhao, and Ziao Zhao

Warnings hanging over my head:

The cost of computing has dropped exponentially, but the cost of thinking is what it always was. That is why we see so many articles with so many regressions and so little thought.

Zvi Griliches

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

Ronald Coase