Ruoke Yang

Financial Economist, Office of Corporate Finance (DERA)

Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2022–present

Yang, Ruoke, 2022, What do we learn from ratings about corporate social responsibility? New evidence of uninformative ratings, Journal of Financial Intermediation (52): 100994.
Yang, Ruoke, 2013, When is BitCoin a Security Under U.S. Securities Law? Journal of Technology Law and Policy 18(2): 99-129.
Yang, Ruoke, 2013, Could the Virtual Be Similar to the Real? A First Look from an Efficient Markets Perspective, The Quarterly Journal of Finance 3(4): 1-21.
Yang, Ruoke, 2012, Virtual World Bots: A Defense for Fair Use, Arizona State Sports and Entertainment Law Journal 2(2): 95-138.
Koehler, Matthew, Yang, Ruoke, and Leonard Gray, 2012, Cell-based Volume Integration for Boundary Integral Analysis, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 90(7): 915–927.

Yang, Ruoke, 2022, Socially Responsible Investing in a Free and Democratic Society, Imperial College.
Yang, Ruoke, 2021, Credit Ratings in the Age of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Imperial College.
Yang, Ruoke and Iva Koci, 2020, Socially Conscious Investors Mitigating Stock Market Losses in a Time of Crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crash, Imperial College.
Calomiris, Charles, Mamaysky, Harry, and Ruoke Yang, 2019, Measuring the Cost of Regulation: A Text-based Approach, Columbia University.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Paper presentation, 2023, JCF SI Conference on Ownership and Corporate Social and Sustainable Policies
Participant, 2023, Stanford Carbon Accounting Roundtable for Policymakers
Paper presentation, 2023, Conference for Financial Market Regulation
Panelist, 2023, American Accounting Association Conference: The Rise of ESG and the Future of Financial Reporting
Paper presentation, 2021, Eastern Finance Association Conference
Paper presentation, 2020, Southern Economic Association Conference
Discussant, 2020, European Finance Association
Discussant, 2019, Adam Smith Junior Conference