
ZHU XiaoyuAssistant Professor
Post-doctor
Finance
EMAIL: zhuxy95@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Xiaoyu (Ross) Zhu, Assistant Professor, Lingnan (University) College, Sun Yat-Sen University
Research Interests
Empirical Corporate Finance, Banking, Corporate Social Responsibility
Education
2015-2020:PhD in Finance, Baruch College, City University of New York
2012-2014:M.S. in Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
2008-2012:Bachelor in Economics and Mathematics, Lake Foreset College
Awards
Oscar Lasdon Memorial Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of finance or investment, Baruch College, City University of New York
CUNY Research Fund
Working Paper
"Walking the Walk? Bank ESG and Home Mortgage Lending" (with Sudipta Basu, Justin Vitanza, and Wei Wang)
"Corporate Deleveraging: The Impact of Debt Maturity Structure and Callable Bonds" (with Armen Hovakimian)
"Loan Risk Grades and Loan Loss Provisions" (with Wei Wang)
"Analyst Coverage, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Firm Value, Evidence from China" (with Cheng Xu and Wangfang Xiong)
"Financial Flexibility and Cash Holding: Evidence from Corporate Bonds"
Conferences
2021
Eastern Finance Association
2020
ASSA/AEA
Chinese Finance Annual Meeting
Hawaii Accounting Research Conference
2019
FMA Asia, Ph.D. Consortium
The 2019 Conference on the Convergence of Financial and Managerial Accounting Research
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