Law and Economics
Economic analysis of legal institutions, market governance, property rights, evidence, antitrust, and copyright.
Academic profile
Michael D. Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Chu Hai College
Michael D. Wang’s research lies at the intersection of law and economics, artificial intelligence and finance, behavioural finance, textual analysis, and computational social science.
About
Michael D. Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at Hong Kong Chu Hai College. His work combines law-and-economics reasoning with empirical and computational methods, including machine learning, textual analysis, and social simulation. His current research addresses legal institutions, financial markets, artificial intelligence, industrial policy, and distributional questions in China and Hong Kong.
Research Areas
Current research is organised around legal and financial institutions, computational methods, and market behaviour.
Artificial Intelligence and Finance
Applications of machine learning, natural language processing, and AI to finance, policy, and risk analysis.
Behavioural Finance and Textual Analysis
Research on news credibility, uncertainty measurement, and the interpretation of financial and political narratives.
Social Simulation and Computational Social Science
Computational approaches to social, legal, and economic questions, including agent-based modelling.
Selected Publications
A brief selection from recent journal articles and working papers.