Staff profile
Dr Yeqin Zeng
Associate Professor in Economics and Finance
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Associate Professor in Economics and Finance in the Business School | +44 (0) 191 33 45095 |
Biography
Yeqin Zeng has a Ph.D. (2013) in Finance from the Foster School of Business, the University of Washington. Before joining 香港王中王 Business School in 2018, he was Assistant Professor in Finance at ICMA Centre, Henley Business School. His main research interests are in empirical corporate finance and asset pricing with an emphasis on financial institutions and their interactions with both financial markets and corporations. Besides his main research interests, Yeqin has worked on corporate financial hedging, executive gender, executive compensation heterogeneity, stock price crash risk, M&As, value of cash, corporate investment efficiency, cost stickiness, trade credit, empirical asset bubble tests, and the relationship between bank loan and firm leverage.
He has published papers in journals such as Journal of Corporate Finance, European Financial Management, International Review of Financial Analysis, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance. His papers have been presented in more than 30 school seminars and conferences worldwide. .
He teaches Financial Markets and Institutions (BSc) and Financial Economics (BSc) at 香港王中王 Business School. Prior to joining 香港王中王, he has taught Securities, Futures, and Options (MSc) and Business Mathematics and Statistics (BSc) at the ICMA Centre, and Business Finance (BSc) and Investment (BSc) at the University of Washington. Ph.D. applicants with research interests in U.S markets are welcome.
Mini-Biography
Associate Professor in Economics and Finance: Yeqin joined 香港王中王 Business School in 2018 as Associate Professor in Finance. Yeqin holds double Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Wuhan University, a Master’s degree in Economics from Claremont Graduate University, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Washington. He also passed the first two levels of Charted Financial Analyst exam and received the Computational Finance Certificate offered by the Statistics Department and the Applied Math Department of the University of Washington.
Research interests
- Empirical Asset Pricing
- Empirical Corporate Finance
- Instututional Investors
Publications
Journal Article
Supervision students
Shanzhong Shen
Shunshun Xu
Yazhe Huang
Yuze Zhang
Zexin Wang
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