Re-Jin Guo, PhD
Professor of Finance
Honors college Faculty Fellow
Department of Finance
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UH 2127
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601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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About
Re-Jin J. Guo is Professor of Finance in the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she has been a faculty member since 1999. Her research spans sustainable finance, corporate governance, IPO markets, new venture financing, analyst behavior, corporate disclosure, and the mechanisms of primary equity markets. She has published in leading journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and ranks in the top 10% of SSRN authors by all-time downloads.
Professor Guo was a 2023–2024 Fulbright Scholar and has held visiting appointments at National Taiwan University, Waseda University, Fudan University, Northwestern University (Kellogg), and NYU Stern. She serves on multiple editorial boards, including Corporate Governance: An International Review and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and has received best paper awards from the Taiwan Finance Association, Asia Finance Association, and NTU International Finance Conferences. She is active in the American Finance Association's AFFECT committee and serves as faculty representative on the UIC Senate.
Professor Guo was a 2023–2024 Fulbright Scholar and has held visiting appointments at National Taiwan University, Waseda University, Fudan University, Northwestern University (Kellogg), and NYU Stern. She serves on multiple editorial boards, including Corporate Governance: An International Review and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and has received best paper awards from the Taiwan Finance Association, Asia Finance Association, and NTU International Finance Conferences. She is active in the American Finance Association's AFFECT committee and serves as faculty representative on the UIC Senate.
Selected Publications
- Guo, Re-Jin and Rong Zhong. “Do Managers Learn from Analysts about Investing? Evidence from Internal Capital Allocation.” The Accounting Review 98.2 (2023).
- Guo, Re-Jin, Yu-Hsin Lin, and Christopher Chen. “The Effect of Political Influence on Corporate Valuation: Evidence from Party-Building Reform in China.” International Review of Law and Economics 73 (2023).
- Chan, Konan, Re-Jin Guo, Yanzhi Wang, and Hsiao-Lin Yang. “Organization Capital and Analyst Coverage.” Journal of Empirical Finance 69 (2022).
- Guo, Re-Jin, Yinda Lu, and Lingling Xie. “Ranking Analysts by Network Structural Hole.” The Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, Statistics and Technology (2018).
- Da, Zhi, Re-Jin Guo, and Ravi Jagannathan. “CAPM for Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital: Interpreting the Empirical Evidence.” Journal of Financial Economics 103 (2012): 204-220.
- Chen, Rong, Re-Jin Guo, and Ming Lin. “Self-selectivity in firm’s decision to withdraw IPO: Bayesian inference for hazard models of bankruptcy with feedback.” Journal of the American Statistical Association (2010): 1297-1309.
Notable Honors
2023-2024, Fulbright Scholar Award, U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
--, Top 10% of Authors Worldwide, ocial Science Research Network (SSRN)
Education
Ph.D. in Finance, University of Minnesota, 1999.
Professional Memberships
• American Finance Association (AFA)
• AFFECT — Academic Female Finance Committee of the AFA
• Financial Management Association (FMA)
• Asia Finance Association
• Taiwan Finance Association