Compared with the School of Economics (whose financial training is the same as that of many universities in China), Wang Yanan Institute of Economics (WISE) emphasizes profound theoretical foundation and modern mathematical analysis methods. The curriculum and teaching difficulty of undergraduate, master and doctoral students are completely in line with the first-class research universities in the United States. All courses are taught in English, using textbooks commonly used by top research universities in the United States. Zou Zhizhuang, an honorary professor at Princeton University, Jerry houseman, an economics professor at MIT and a Clark Prize winner, Zheng Xiao, an economics professor at the University of Southern California and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Econometrics, and clive granger, an honorary professor at the University of California and a Nobel Prize winner in economics, are all academic consultants.
Finance of Wang Yanan Economic Research Institute has two research directions. One is corporate finance, the main research contents are capital structure, dividend policy, initial public offering, merger and acquisition and risk management. The second is financial econometrics, which mainly studies the combination of finance and econometrics. Using econometrics to study financial problems is still a relatively new field in China, which contributes to the international integration of finance.
The brand of Wang Yanan Economic Research Institute is "Quantitative Finance".
Lawrence Klein, Honorary Professor of Economics Department of University of Pennsylvania, winner of 1979 Nobel Prize in Economics.