Daxuan Cheng
Pronounced as /dá: ʃuān chéŋ/
Daxuan Cheng
Pronounced as /dá: ʃuān chéŋ/
Welcome 👋
I am currently a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Applied Finance as well as a sessional adademic at Macquarie Business School, Sydney. I will be on 2025-2026 job market.
My research interest stands on a crossover of several finance topics, including information disclosure, supply chain finance, banking finance, and emerging non-traditional risks in the capital market.
I am also enthusiastic about exploring alternative data, textual analysis, as well as other frontier methods in the research.
LinkedIn: [Click Here] | Google Scholar: [Click Here] | Curriculum Vitae: [Click Here] | Email Address: [daxuan.cheng@mq.edu.au]
2025 July & August:
Job market paper "Data privacy risk: Measurement and effects" coauthored with Ding Ding, Yin Liao, and Zheyao Pan is accepted by FMA Annual Meeting 2025 (Vancouver, October 22-25) and 14th FIRN Annual Conference (Perth, November 25-28).
2025 Feb:
Paper "Mind the cost of disturbance: firm-level supply chain risk and the bank loan cost" coauthered with Lei Gao, Yin Liao, and Zheyao Pan receives the review decision (Reject and Resubmit) from the Production and Operations Management (POMS).
2024 Sept:
Paper "Mind the cost of disturbance: Firm-level supply chain risk and the bank loan cost" is accepted by multiple conferences, including 37th AFBC, IFABS 2024, 2024 SBFC, and 2024 NZFM.
2024 June:
I participate and lead a research group in the "AIX Impact Premium Project", a sustainable finance project funded by the Digital Finance CRC.
2023 Dec:
We are invited to publish a brief article to introduce our research work by editors of Commodity Insight Digest, a journal of UCL Bayes Business School.
2023 Jan:
Paper "The geopolitical risk premium in the commodity futures market" coauthored with Yin Liao, and Zheyao Pan is accepted by the Journal of Futures Market.
2022 Sept:
I present paper "The geopolitical risk premium in the commodity futures market" at 2022 Derivative Markets Conference (Auckland, online presentation).
The Geopolitical Risk Premium in the Commodity Futures Market with Yin Liao and Zheyao Pan, Journal of Futures Market, 2023
"Top Cited Article 2022 & 2023" in the Journal of Futures Market.
Press/Media: UnHeard, Savvy Investor, Commodity Insight Digest, etc.
Data Privacy Risk: Measurement and Effect with Ding Ding, Yin Liao, Zheyao Pan
Job Market Paper [SSRN Link]
Under Review in Management Science.
Presentation: FMA Annual Meeting 2025 (*Schedualed in Vancouver, October 2025); The Third International Conference on Acturial Science, Quantitative Finance and Risk Management (Beijing, July 2025); University of Wollongong (Wollongong, June 2025); MQBS BrownBag Seminar (Sydney, May 2025).
We develop a firm level measure of data privacy risk exposure based on earnings call transcripts, and investigate its implications in the capital markets.
Mind the Cost of Disturbance: Firm-level Supply Chain Risk and the Bank Loan Cost with Lei Gao, Yin Liao, Zheyao Pan
Reject and Resubmit in the Production and Operations Management.
Presentation: MQBS Graduate Research Expo (Sydney, July 2024); NZFM Conference (Auckland, December 2024); SBFC Conference (Sydney, December 2024); AFBC Conference (Sydney, December 2024).
We investigate how the bank loan market evaluates and reacts to supply chain risk of borrower firms.
Forecasting Supply Chain Stability Using Thermal Infrared Radiation with Fulong Xiao
We investigate how the factory/firm-level thermal infrared radiation (TIR) data can be applied in supply chain stability forcast and its economic consequences.
Macquarie University, Australia
Guest Lecturer
AFIN7005 & 8005 - Research Method in Finance, Postgraduate Course, 2024 S2 & 2025 S2
Two-hour lecture & R demonstration on "Introduction of Textual Analysis in Financial and Economic Research" [Lecture Slides Available Here]
Tutor / Teaching Assistant
ACST6003 - Principles of Finance, Postgraduate Course, 2025 S2
AFIN3053 - Advanced Corporate Finance, Undergraduate Course, 2025 S2
AFIN8003 - Banking and Financial Intermediation, Postgraduate Course, 2025 S1
AFIN7005 & 8005 - Research Method in Finance, Postgraduate Course, 2024 S2
AFIN8010 - Environmental Finance, Postgraduate Course, 2024 S1
Actively serve as ad-hoc referee/reviewer at high-quality journals and conferences, including:
Journals:
Journal of Futures Market (*2), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Accounting and Finance (*3).
Conferences:
AFAANZ 2025 Conference (*3), 37th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, 2024 Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference, 2024 New Zealand Finance Meeting, 2022 Derivative Markets Conference.
I enjoy exploring various things in my spare time, such as:
Reading books of various topics, typically history, sci-fantasy fictions.
Exploring and listening to music of almost all kinds, while indie-pop and jazz may be my favourite.
I also enjoy various sports including badminton, hiking, and road biking.
Used to be a freelance market trader and blog writer for sneaker/Crypto/NFT.