Wenjing Yao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Practice in Management Science and Statistics

Degrees

  • Ph.D. University of Georgia
  • M.A. University of Central Florida
  • B.A. Sichuan University

Teaching Areas

  • Basis Statistics
  • Programming Languages: SAS and R

Selected Publications

  • “On the Risk of Specialized REITs,” with Piao, X. and Mei, B., Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2022, pp. 33 – 47.
  • “Private-equity real estates, timberland and farmland markets: Segregation or integration,” with Mei, B. and Wu, W., Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol. 50, No. 11, 2020, pp. 1101–1112.
  • “Investor sentiment and timberland investment returns,” with Cheng, B., and Mei, B, Forest Products Journal, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2016, pp. 147–154.
  • “Assessing forestry-related assets with the intertemporal capital asset pricing model,” with Mei, B., Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 50. No. C, 2015, pp. 192–199.
  • “Pricing timberland assets in the United States by the arbitrage pricing theory,” with Mei, B., and Clutter, B, Forest Science, Vol. 66, No. 5, 2014, pp. 943–952.