About

Wenzhi Ding (Dave) is an Assistant Professor of Finance at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research sits at the intersection of technology and finance: FinTech, corporate governance, cryptocurrency and DeFi markets, and ESG. He studies how new technologies change the way businesses operate and how they can be used to understand economic mechanisms.

His peer-reviewed work has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Financial Innovation, and has been featured by outlets such as The Economist, Harvard Law School Forum, and UNPRI. He is also a science-fiction writer; his stories, along with essays on technology, are published in the blog section of this site.

What this site hosts

• His research overview with working papers and publications (from the home page), including links to SSRN and DOI records suitable for citation.
• Curriculum vitae as PDF: English CV · 中文简历.
• Open-source projects he maintains — research data-standardization tables, an Obsidian plugin for Zotero literature notes, a minimal Chrome translation extension, and Python utilities — indexed on the Projects page.
• Fiction and essays in English and Chinese on the blog (中文版在 中文主页).

Who this site is for

The site is intended for colleagues, students, journalists, editors, and anyone evaluating or citing his work. It is the authoritative source for his affiliation, contact details, publication list, and software releases. For questions about anything here, see the Contact page; for what data this site collects, see Privacy. A curated machine-readable guide to everything above lives at /llms.txt.