Associate Professor Zhaoxia Xu

My Expertise

Finance, Innovation

Fields of Research (FoR)

Finance, Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)

Biography

Dr. Zhaoxia Xu is an Associate Professor at the School of Banking and Finance in the UNSW Business School. Her research interests include corporate finance and innovation, with a focus on the real effects of government policies and regulations. Her work was funded by the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been published in leading academic journals including Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. She is an Associate Editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies. Dr. Xu previously worked for the New York University and the Bank of Canada. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.

My Grants

UNSW Business School International Collaborative Research, 2019
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Innovation Policy Research Grant, 2014 - 2015, Sole Principal Investigator

My Qualifications

Ph.D. University of Toronto

My Awards

Outstanding Associate Editor Award, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, 2022
Best Paper Award Semi-Finalist, Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, 2015
Best Paper Award Semi-Finalist, Financial Management Association International Annual Asian Meeting, 2015
Best Paper Award by the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, 2013
Best Paper Award Semi-Finalist, Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, 2011

My Research Supervision

Areas of supervision

Corporate Finance, Innovation

Currently supervising

Xuehua Shao, Yili Song

My Engagement

Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, 2019-current

Ad Hoc Reviewer
Canada Research Chairs, Austrian Science Fund, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Financial Management, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Financial Review, Journal of Business Research

Conference Program and Review Committee Member
Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
The Society for Financial Studies Cavalcade Asia-Pacific Annual Meeting, 2018, 2019, 2022
Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, 2011, 2015, 2020, 2021
Fourteenth Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 2019
Financial Management Association International Annual Asian Meeting, 2015