Yeqing Zhang (张叶青)
Contact Information
Institute of Finance and Economics
Central University of Finance and Economics
Beijing, 100081, China
E-mail: yeqingzhang(at)cufe.edu.cn
Academic Experience
2025/01–PresentAssociateProfessor, Institute of Finance and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE)
2021/07–PresentMember,China Asset Management Academy
2021/07–2024/12Assistant Professor, Institute of Finance and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE)
Research Interests
Empirical Corporate Finance, Machine Learning and Big Data, Labor and Finance
Teaching
Quantitative Investment, Advanced Macroeconomics, Government Finance and Economics
education
2015–2021PhD in Finance, Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management
2018–2019Visiting Ph.D. student in Finance, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
2011–2015BA in Financial Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics, School of Finance
Publications
“Can investment incentives crowd out innovation? Evidence from China” (with Shaowei Ke, Yao Lu, and Xinzheng Shi),Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
Margin Trading, Short Selling, and Information Asymmetry (with Minggang Xu and Xueyong Zhang),Journal of Financial Markets,2024: 100926.
“Effects of Big Data on Firm Value in China: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Chinese Listed Firms’ Annual Reports” (with Yao Lu and Leyun Li), 2021,Economic Research Journal(经济研究), 56(12), 42–59.
“Venture Capital, Innovation Capability and Post-IPO Performance” (with Xueyong Zhang), 2016,Economic Research Journal(经济研究), 51(10), 112–125.
“Managerial Individual Characteristics and Corporate Performance: Evidence from a Machine Learning Approach” (with Yao Lu, Bo Li, and Haoyu Zhao), 2020,Journal of Management Sciences(管理科学学报), 23(2): 120–140.
“Venture Capital Syndication and Corporate Innovation” (with Yao Lu, Rui Jia, and Jianhang Li), 2017,Journal of Financial Research(金融研究), 6, 159–175.
“Patent Growth and the Long-Run Performance of VC-backed IPOs” (with Xueyong Zhang), 2020,International Review of Economics & Finance, 69: 33–47.
“Mutual Fund Managers’ Timing Abilities” (withLi Liao and Xueyong Zhang), 2017,Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 44, 80–96.
“Shanghai–Hong Kong Stock Connection, Capital Flows and A–H Premium” (with Yao Lu, Xinzheng Shi, and Bohan Yang), 2018,China Journal of Economics(经济学报), 5(1), 1–26.
Research Projects
National Natural Science Foundation of China
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Special Foundation of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Honors, Awards, and Fellowship
Third Prize, 13th Young Faculty Teaching Competency Competition,CUFE,2023
OutstandingResearchTeam Award,2022–2023
Hongji Shiye Grant for Distinguished Academic Papers, CUFE,2022
Curriculum-based Ideological & Political Education Honorary Teaching Master with Team Recognition,Beijing,2022
Outstanding Graduate in Beijing, Beijing, 2021
Comprehensive Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2020
WeijieOutstanding Paper Scholarship (Four times), Tsinghua University, 2017–2021
Doctoral Students’ Abroad Visiting Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2019
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2018
China Scholarship Council, Joint-Ph.D. Program Scholarship, 2018–2019
XiaolinshiChina Economic Research Outstanding Paper Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2017
Best Paper Award by Financial Management Forum, 2015
