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Current Position

2023/02-Now: Associate Professor (Reader) of Finance, at University of Exeter Business School, UK.

Past Positions

2018/06-2023/01: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) of Finance, at University of Liverpool Management School, UK.

2021/09-2023/01: Director of Studies, Accounting and Finance PhD programme, at University of Liverpool Management School, UK

2016/07-2018/05: Lecturer in Finance, at School of Management, University of Bradford, UK.

2013/07-2016/06: Postdoc Researcher, Research and teaching oriented, at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden.

2010/06-2013/06: Research Fellow, Project and teaching oriented (one of the main contributors to the Credit Research Initiative), at Risk Management Institute (RMI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.

Education

2007–2011: Ph.D. in Finance, The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, Xiamen, FJ, China.

2007–2009: Visiting Ph.D. student (Research Scholar), Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

2005–2007 :Master program in Finance, The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, Xiamen, FJ, China.

1998–2002: B.A., School of Economics & Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, JS, China.

Journal Articles

15. Do Oil Price Forecast Disagreement of Survey of Professional Forecasters Predict Crude Oil Return Volatility? (forthcoming in International Journal of Forecasting, with Anton Hasselgren, Ai Jun Hou, Sandy Suardi, and Caihong Xu, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4683784)

14. On the (Almost) Stochastic Dominance of Cryptocurrency Factor Portfolios & Implications for Cryptocurrency Asset Pricing (forthcoming in European Financial Management, with Weihao Han, David Newton, Emmanouil Platanakis, and Charles Sutcliffe, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3857315)

13. Product market competition, labor mobility, and the cross-section of stock returns (forthcoming in Review of Asset Pricing Studies, with Shamim Ahmed and Ziwen Bu, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3588433)

12. Illiquidity, R&D investment, and stock returns (forthcoming in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, with Shamim Ahmed and Ziwen Bu, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3675865)

11. Credit Derivatives and Corporate Default Prediction (with Fan Yu and Ran Zhao, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3578188), Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 138, May 2022, 106418

10. Hedge Fund Strategies, Performance & Diversification: A Portfolio Theory & Stochastic Discount Factor Approach (with David Newton, Emmanouil Platanakis, Dimitrios Stafylas and Charles Sutcliffe, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3388184) British Accounting Review, September 2021, Volume 53, Issue 5, 101000

9. Horses for Courses: Mean-Variance for Asset Allocation and 1/N for Stock Selection (with Emmanouil Platanakis and Charles Sutcliffe, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3372334) European Journal of Operational Research, January 2021, Volume 288, Issue 1, Pages 302-317. Lead article in 'Innovative Applications of O.R.'

8. How Does the Stock Market View Bank Regulatory Capital Forbearance Policies? (with Van Son Lai, available online at http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=2536017) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 52, Issue 8, December 2020, Pages 1873-1907. Lead article 

7. Unifying Gaussian Dynamic Term Structure Models from an Heath-Jarrow-Morton Perspective (with Haitao Li and Fan Yu, forthcoming version available online at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2817599) European Journal of Operational Research, November 2020, Volume 286, Issue 3, Pages 1153-1167

6. Are Market Views on Banking Industry Useful for Forecasting Economic Growth? (with Van Son Lai and Lu Zhao, available online at https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3273429) Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, October 2019, Volume 57, 101082

5. Modeling Municipal Yields with (and without) Bond Insurance (with Albert Lee Chun, Ethan Namvar, and Fan Yu, available online at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2672364) Management Science, August 2019, Volume 65, Issue 8, Pages 3694–3713

4. Exploring Mispricing in the Term Structure of CDS Spreads (with Robert Jarrow, Haitao Li, and May Hu, available online at https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2686284) Review of Finance, February 2019, Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 161–198

3. Counter-Credit-Risk Yield Spreads: A Puzzle in China’s Corporate Bond Market (with Jian Luo and May Hu, online appendix), International Review of Finance, June 2016, Volume 16, Issue 2, pages 203–241 

2. Optimizing Enterprise Risk Management (with Yongrok Choi, Amanda Luo, and Lu Zhao),  Annals of Operations Research, February 2016, Volume 237, Issue 1–2, pp 281–300

1. A New Approach to Measuring Market Expectations and Term Premia, Journal of Fixed Income, Spring 2015, Vol. 24, No. 4: pp. 22-46

Selected Working Papers

The Trade Imbalance Network and Currency Returns (with Ai Jun Hou and Lucio Sarno, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4534287) R&R at Journal of Financial Economics

Generalized Black-Litterman with Decision Fusion (with Xinyu Huang, Massimo Guidolin, David P. Newton, and Emmanouil Platanakis, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4395771)

Global Trade Network and Term Premia Dynamics (with Ai Jun Hou and Caihong Xu, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4182576)

Commodity Inflation Risk Premium: Evidence from the Cross-Section of Commodity Futures (with Ai Jun Hou, Emmanouil Platanakis, and Guofu Zhou, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4213690)

Voluntary Disclosures and Climate Change Uncertainty: Evidence from CDS Premiums (with Michael B. Imerman and Ran Zhao, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4168250) R&R at Journal of Corporate Finance

Informational Friction, Economic Uncertainty, and CDS-Bond Basis (with Charlie X. Cai and Ran Zhao, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3746637)

Book Chapter

Term Structure, Market Expectations of the Short Rate, and Expected Inflation (with Jian Luo) In: Mili M., Samaniego Medina R., di Pietro F. (eds) New Methods in Fixed Income Modeling. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham, August 2018

Conference, Workshop, and Seminar Presentations

Research Grants

Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius foundation (P19-0264), "International trade networks and financial asset prices" led by Ai Jun Hou, 2019 - 2022

Pump Priming Research Fund, University of Liverpool Management School, 2019

Pump Priming Research Fund for Junior Researchers, Bradford School of Management, 2017

Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation MMW 2015.0007, "Credit Ratings and Risk with Correlation Structure" led by Desheng Wu, 2016 - 2019

Non-Academic Experience

2010/01–03: Senior Quant Analyst (Internship), Haitong Futures Co.,Ltd, Shanghai, China.

2002–2004: Marketing Analyst, LG Electronics(Tianjin) appliance Co.,Ltd, Tianjin, China.