Faculty/Staff

Lei Wedge

Lei Wedge

Associate Professor
lwedge@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3126
Phone: 813-974-6351
Vita

Lei Wedge is an associate professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance who teaches investments courses at undergraduate and MBA levels.

Her research focus is investments and real estate. Wedge's work has been cited in popular mainstream publications including the Wall Street Journal and Smart Money, as well as being published in academic journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Theory and Decision, Real Estate Economics and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Wedge earned her PhD in finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was granted the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) designation in 2006.

Teaching

  • FIN 4504 - Principles of Investments
  • FIN 6515 - Investments
  • FIN 6465 - Financial Statement Analysis

Research

  • “Micro Evidence Relating to House Rents, Prices, and Investor Activity from a Matched Dataset,” forthcoming, with Marcus Allen, Jessica Rutherford, Ronald Rutherford and Abdullah Yavas), Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.
  • “Non-hyperbolic Discounting and Dynamic Preference Reversal”, (2019), with Shou Chen, Richard Fu and Ziran Zou, Theory and Decision, 86(2), 283-302.
  • "Market Efficiency and the Value of Previously Distressed Sales," (2017), with Jessica Rutherford, Ronald Rutherford and Elizabeth Strom, Real Estate Economics, Vol 45, Issue 3, 713-760.
  • "Finite Horizon Consumption and Portfolio decisions with Stochastic Hyperbolic Discounting," (2014), with Shou Chen, Richard Fu and Ziran Zou, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 52, 70-80.
  •  "Participation Costs in Higher Education Optional Retirement Plans," (2012), with Daniel Bradley, Journal of Investment Management, Vol 10, Issue 3.

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  • "Managerial Ownership and the Disposition Effect," (2011), with Richard Fu, Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 35, Issue 9, 2407-2417.
  • "Board Structure and Mutual Fund Manager Turnover," (2011), with Richard Fu, Financial Review, Vol. 46, Issue 4, 2011, 621-641.
  • "Board Structure, Mergers and Shareholder Wealth: A Study of the Mutual Fund Industry”, (2007), with Ajay Khorana and Peter Tufano, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol.85, No.2, 574-598.
  • “Portfolio Manager Ownership and Fund Performance”, (2007), with Ajay Khorana and Henri Servaes, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol.85, No.1, 179-204.