Yongyuan Qiao

EDUCATION

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS                                                                          Sep, 05 - Present              -PhD candidate in financial economics, jointly supervised by Dr. Vlad   Damjanovic and Prof Charles Nolan.                                                             -Thesis title: “On the Determinants of Initial Public Offering                       Underpricing”.                                                                                                 -Interested in IPO underpricing, game theory and financial market         efficiency and corporate finance. 

CHINA CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH, PEKING UNIVERSITY                                                                     Feb, 02 - Jun, 05
-B.A. in Economics

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS, PEKING UNIVERSITY  Sep, 01 - Jun, 05     -B.S. in Physics
-Outstanding Student Scholarship, 2001-02                                    -Excellent Leader Prize, Peking University Social Practice Programme, 2002

WORK EXPERIENCE

MINSHENG BANK CO., INTERNSHIP                 July, 07 - Sept, 07    -Corporate Banking Dpt. Get involved in two financing cases. -Member of Corporate Banking Team for Transportation Industry,          providing projectfinancing consulting service to our clients, major         in  transportation industry.                                                                                -Chief Editor for “Transportation Industry” chapter in “Minsheng Products Manual”.

CHINA MERCHANT SECURITIES CO., INTERNSHIP                                                                                              Feb, 05 - Jun, 05     -Project Manager Assistant in Investment Banking Department,               Beijing Centre                                                                                                -Assisted in publishing documents and communicating with the key      clients during the project of issuing 2 billion RMB bonds for a leading   Chinese power company.

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS 

-“IPO Clustering and the Level of Underpricing in Hong Kong Equity Market”, CRIEFF Working Paper No. 0715, December, 2007. Forthcoming as a chapter in “Financial Sector Reform and International Integration of China”, Routledge.

-“The Nature of Underwriter Network in IPOs: A Layered Structure”, CRIEFF Working Paper, March, 2008

-“The Coordination Problem in Initial Public Offerings: The Flippers as a Vehicle of Successful Selling”, CRIEFF Working Paper, March, 2008. Submitted.

TEACHING, PRESENTATION AND REFEREES

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS                                                                          Sept, 05 - Present
-Tutor for Micro- and Macro- Economics for 1st and 2nd year students for 9 groups

PRESENTATIONS: Brown Bag Seminars (St Andrews, April 08); Chinese Economics Associates (UK) 19^th (Cambridge, April 08) and18^th (Nottingham, April 07) Annual Conference; Inter-Disciplinary China Studies Forum (Cambridge, March 07)

REFEREE FOR:   Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Review

OTHER INFO

Languages   -Chinese (Native)  -English (Fluent)

PC Skills -Advanced in SPSS, C++, Matlab, MySQL, Linux (Strong computational skills)