Dr. Yue Xiang

Selected Working Papers

Competition and Carbon Emissions (with Vesa Pursiainen and Hanwen Sun)

• Presentations: Paris December Finance Meeting 2025, CEPR Climate Change and the Environment Symposium 2025, FMA Asia/Pacific Conference 2025, GRASFI Annual Conference 2025, German Finance Association Annual Meeting 2025, Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability Oxford Workshop 2025, Sustainability at Crossroads Conference 2025, Sabanci Business School Finance Workshop 2025, Shanghai-Edinburgh-London Green Finance Conference 2025, NTHU-UNSW-SMU Symposium on Sustainable Finance and Economics 2025, KU Leven Sustainability and Finance Conference 2025, Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance 2025, University of St Andrews, University of Bristol.

To Acquire or to Ally? Foreign Competition and Firm Boundary (with Hanwen Sun, Fangming Xu, and Chenjian Zhang)

• Award: China Financial Engineering Annual Conference 2023 Best Paper Award.

• Presentations: University of Southern Denmark Finance Workshop 2025, International Conference of the French Finance Association 2024, China Financial Engineering Annual Conference 2023, FMA Annual Meeting 2023, International Corporate Governance Conference 2023, FMA European Conference 2023, EAA Annual Congress 2023, British Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference 2023, Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference 2023, Welsh Postgraduate Research Conference 2023, Loughborough University.

Competitive Pressure and ESG (with Vesa Pursiainen and Hanwen Sun)

• Media coverage: Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, Oxford Business Law Blog, ProMarket, University of St.Gallen News, LexBlog.

• Presentations: CEPR Sustainability and Public Policy Workshop 2024, FMA Asia/Pacific Conference 2024, ZEW Ageing and Sustainable Finance Conference 2024, Women in Finance Warwick Workshop 2024, FIW-Research Conference 2024, Sustainability and Regulation Workshop 2023, FMA Annual Meeting 2022, GRASFI Annual Conference 2022, FMA European Conference 2022, Behavioural Finance Working Group Annual Conference 2022, EAA Annual Congress 2022, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2021, International Young Finance Scholar’s Conference 2021, Welsh Postgraduate Research Conference 2022, Central University of Finance and Economics, Durham University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Queen’s University Belfast, Renmin University of China, University of Aberdeen, University of Exeter, University of International Business and Economics, Wuhan University.

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer Committee Member

• Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2026, 2024)

• Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (2025, 2024, 2023)

• Financial Management Association Applied Finance Conference (2026, 2025, 2024)

• Financial Management Association Asia/Pacific Conference (2025, 2024)

• Financial Management Association European Conference (2026, 2025, 2024)

• Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2025, 2024)

• Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2024)

Referee

• International Review of Financial Analysis

• Research in International Business and Finance

• Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal

Teaching