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From Ideation to Design: The Anatomy of "Writing a Paper"
从构想到设计：“论文写作”的剖析
时 间：2025年6月5日（Thur.）
16:00 - 17:30 p.m.
地 点：同德楼208
主 讲：Wei Jiang (Emory University)
Instead of a usual seminar format, I will present the paper in reverse-engineering to showcase how such a paper was put into place, focusing the path between ideation and execution.
本次研讨会并非采用常规形式，我将通过逆向工程的方式来展示这篇论文，揭示一篇论文是如何诞生的，重点阐述从初步构想到最终执行的完整路径。
Active pre-work enables deeper collaborative problem-solving during the workshop. Registered participants receive the paper and slide deck in advance. Please review the attached paper and the slide deck and answer the following questions. In particular, please find the focal slide that addresses each of the following questions. Registration is required to receive all workshop resources.
积极的会前准备能让研讨会期间的协作式问题解决更加深入。注册参会者将提前收到论文和演示文稿。请阅读附件中的论文和演示文稿，并回答以下问题。特别是，请找出解答以下各个问题的核心幻灯片。须注册才能获取全部研讨会资料。
How does private credit come into the picture?
What is each coauthor’s intellectual credential that contributes to the current project?
How to define the broad research question of the study? It usually depends on “what does theory say” and/or “what is unusual of this phenomenon?”
Where would you find the key data?
Could you “print out” the data?
How to come up with a “pilot table,” such that a paper becomes “viable” once you obtain robust results from this table (and its reasonable variants)?
How do you come up with a “headline narrative” based on the pilot able?
How do you demonstrate “causal inference” for the key result?
Can you propose at least two powerful “alternative explanations” that could yield outcomes that are observationally equivalent to the key results?
How would you come up with tests that differentiate your favored mechanism from the alternatives?
(Optional) Are you able to come up with a “placebo test?”
What is the biggest weakness of the paper?
私人信贷是如何引入研究的？
每位合著者的哪些学术背景或专长对本项目有所贡献？
如何定义研究的宽泛研究问题？这通常取决于“理论是怎么说的”和/或“这一现象有何特别之处？
关键数据从哪里获取？
你能“打印出”数据吗？
如何设计一个“初步验证表”（Pilot Table），以至于一旦从此表（及其合理变体）中获得稳健结果，论文就基本“可行”了？
如何基于初步验证表，构思出研究的“核心叙事”？
如何为关键结果展示“因果推断”？
你能否提出至少两种有力的“替代解释”，它们能产生与关键结果在观测上等效的现象？
你将如何设计检验来区分你倾向的机制与那些替代解释？
（可选）你能否设计一个“安慰剂检验”？
这篇论文最大的不足之处是什么？
Wei Jiang is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) in the departments of Corporate Finance and Law & Economics. Professor Jiang is currently the President-Elect of the American Finance Association (AFA) and will become the President in 2026. She was recently the President of the Society of Financial Studies (SFS). Professor Jiang's main research interests lie in corporate governance, institutional investors, and technology. She has published extensively in top economics, finance, and law journals, and received numerous awards for research excellence, including the annual best paper prizes from all three top finance journals: the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, as well as from practitioner associations such as the Q Group and Inquire UK. Previously Professor Jiang served as an editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science, and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. Professor Jiang received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and BS/MS in Economics from Fudan University. She was the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise at Columbia Business School up to 2022 when she joined Emory University. At Columbia, she served as the Vice Dean for Curriculum and Programs and a member of the Provost Faculty Advisory Committee.
姜纬是美国埃默里大学戈塞塔商学院（Goizueta Business School）的金融学讲席教授，现任该院分管教授与科研事务的副院长。她同时是美国国家经济研究局（NBER）公司金融及法律与经济学两个研究部门的研究员。姜教授在学术金融两大协会担任领导职务，现任美国金融学会（American Finance Association, AFA）当选主席，并将于2026年担任主席职务。她曾任金融研究学会（Society of Financial Studies, SFS）主席。
姜教授的主要研究方向包括公司治理、机构投资者与科技对金融市场的影响。她的研究成果广泛发表在经济学、金融学与法学的顶级期刊，并多次获得杰出研究奖项，包括《金融学期刊》（Journal of Finance）、《金融研究评论》（Review of Financial Studies）与《金融经济学期刊》（Journal of Financial Economics）三大顶级金融期刊的年度最佳论文奖，以及Q Group 和 Inquire UK 等业界组织颁发的应用研究奖项。她曾担任《金融研究评论》主编和《管理科学》（Management Science）的金融领域主编，以及《金融学期刊》的副主编。
姜教授在芝加哥大学获得经济学博士学位，之前于复旦大学获得经济学学士和硕士学位。2022年加入埃默里大学之前，她是哥伦比亚商学院的金融和自由企业竞争讲席教授，并曾任主管教务和项目的副院长以及哥伦比亚大学学术咨询委员会委员。
