Research Activities
Selected Working Papers
Journal Articles
[21] Chen, X. & Zhang, Y. "Does Non-financial Information Disclosure Promote Firm's Exports? Evidence from China's Mandatory CSR Reporting Regulation " Forthcoming at The British Accounting Review.
[20] Wang, Y., Chen, X., Zhang, Y. "Management Tone and Corporate Information Asymmetry in Times of Pandemic Crisis" Forthcoming at Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation.
[19] Ashton, J., Wang, Y., & Zhang, Y. "Does Mutual Fund Ownership Increase Corporate Environmental Spending?" Forthcoming at Journal of Business Research.
[18] Du, J., & Zhang, Y. (2024). "ISDS Disputes, Adjudications and Cross-Border M&As." Forthcoming at Journal of Corporate Finance. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.102594.
Earmarked General Research Fund from the Research Council of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
[17] Du, J., & Zhang, Y. (2024). "The Impact of ISDS Arbitration Claims and Adjudication on Cross-Border Direct Investment." Transnational Corporations Review. doi.org/10.1016/j.tncr.2024.200053.
[16] Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Chang X., Wei, K., (2024). "CEO Tenure and Environmental Fraud for Listed Family Firms." Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(3), 1887-1905. doi.org/10.1002/bse.3571
[15] Wang, Y., Chen, X., Zhang, Y.(2024). "Do Alumni Relationships between Executive Directors and Auditors Matter for Financial Reporting Quality?" Accounting Forum. doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2023.2286561
[14] Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., & Chen, X. (2023). "Dark Side of Environmental Regulation: Wage Inequality Cost." Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(2), 524-544. doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2022.11.004.
[13] Rouse, M., Ottemoesoe, S., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y. (2023). "Do Female Independent Directors Reduce Corporate Risk Taking During COVID-19?" Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, 31(4), 540–559. doi.org/10.1080/16081625.2023.2198552
[12] Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., & Xiao, H. (2022). "Small business owners’ Fintech credit in crises: Theory and evidence from farmers under the COVID-19." Pacific-Basin Finance Journal., 71 (101692)., doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2021.101692.
[11] Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Fang, H., & Chen, X. (2022). "SMEs' line of credit under the COVID-19: evidence from China." Small Business Economics., 58, 807–828, doi: 10.1007/s11187-021-00474-9.
[10] Wang, Y., Wei, K., Hassan A., & Zhang, Y. (2022) "Female analysts and COVID-19 corporate donation." Emerging Markets Review., doi:10.1016/j.ememar.2022.100941.
[9] Zhang, Y., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Chen, X. (2022). "Globalization blueprint and households' Fintech debt: Evidence from China's One Belt One Road initiative." International Review of Economics & Finance, 79, 38-55, doi: 10.1016/j.iref.2021.12.018.
[8] Chen, X., Fang, H., Liu, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2022) "Does Chinese Policy Banks’ Overseas Lending Favor Belt Road Initiative Countries?" International Studies of Economics., 17(4), 430-458, doi:10.1002/ise3.8.
[7] Fang, H., Liu, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2022). "The China-U.S. Trade War and Chinese Firms’ Global Syndicated Loans." Asian Economics Letters. 3(Early View)., doi.org/10.46557/001c.35241.
[6] Zhang, Y., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y. (2022) “房住不炒” 政策的股市溢出效應 ——包含房產要素的動態均衡模型與資產定價研究. 系統工程理論與實踐 ., doi.org/10.12011/SETP2021-0744. “Non-speculative housing policy’s spillover effect on the stock market - research on dynamic equilibrium asset pricing model with real estate component”, Systems Engineering – Theory & Practice.
[5] Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Chen, X., & Yang, Y. (2021). "Superstition and Farmers' Life Insurance Spending." Economics Letters, 206 (109975)., doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109975.
[4] Xiao, H., Chen, X., Fang, H., & Zhang, Y. (2021). "Insider Share Pledging and Firm Value Consequences under the COVID-19: Evidence from China." Applied Economics., 53(56), 6522-6534., doi: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1946476.
[3] Chen, X., Xiao, H., & Zhang, Y. (2021). "To what extent did independent directors help firms' recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from China." Applied Economics., 53 (38), 4464-4480., doi: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1904114.
[2] Wang, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2020). "Do state subsidies increase corporate environmental spending?" International Review of Financial Analysis, 72 (101592)., doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101592.
[1] Du, J., & Zhang, Y. (2018). "Does One Belt One Road initiative promote Chinese overseas direct investment?" China Economic Review, 47, 189-205, doi: 10.1016/j.chieco.2017.05.010.
Elsevier Awards for the Best Papers published in China Economic Review in 2018.
Book Chapters
[4] Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., & Chen, X. (2023). "Detecting financial statement fraud using the machine learning methods." FinTech Research and Applications: Challenges and Opportunities. World Scientific., doi:10.1142/q0375.
[3] Du, J., & Zhang, Y. (2022). "In Fear of Trojan Horse? China’s Cross-Border Acquisitions in Europe amid the One-Belt-One-Road Initiative." In: Kim, YC. (eds) China and the Belt and Road Initiative. Understanding China. Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-86122-3_5.
[2] Du, J., Fang, H. & Zhang, Y. (2021)."One Belt One Road Initiative and China’s Overseas Lending." In Deepraj Mukherjee, Chris Bellamy, Palto Datta. (Ed.) Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): China’s Global Business Footprint, (pp. 145-173). Centre for Business & Economic Research. https://cberuk.com/book/belt-and-road-initiative-china-s-global-business-footprint.
[1] Du, J., & Zhang, Y. (2019). "One Belt One Road Initiative and China’s overseas direct investment." In Yuan Li, Markus Taube (Ed.), How China's Silk Road Initiative is Changing the Global Economic Landscape, (pp. 130-165). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429455193.
Research Grants
(Co-I) General Research Fund from the Research Council of the Hong Kong SAR Government, 2024 - 2025.
(Co-I) The Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Research Grant, 2023 - 2024.
(Co-I) The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) UK & Ireland Seed Funding , 2022 - 2023.
(PI) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Start-up Fund, 2021 - 2023.
(PI) Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University, UIC Research Grant, 2018 - 2020.
(Co-I) General Research Fund from the Research Council of the Hong Kong SAR Government, 2018 - 2019.
Conference Presentations
2024
98th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association
第十届中国组织经济学研讨会
15th International Odyssey Conference on Economics and Business
2024 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in China
2024 CES China Annual Conference
Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS) 2024
2023
The Inaugural Annual Conference of the British Accounting Review, Harvard University
HKU Inaugural ESG Conference
The 18th East Asian Economic Association International Conference
49th AIB UK & Ireland Chapter Conference
Brownbag Seminar, HKU Business School
Western Economic Association International, Melbourne
98th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association
The 19th Annual Conference of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Development Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2022
International Conference on Technology and Innovation in Business: A Sustainable Perspective
97th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association
The Asia Pacific Trade Seminars, The BAFA FMI and Northern Area Group Annual Conference
British Accounting and Finance Association Financial Markets and Institutions & Northern Area Group Annual Conference, UK.
2021
2nd International Conference on Uncertainties and Financial Markets in the Asia-Pacific Countries
96th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association
University of Bristol
University of International Business and Economics
Capital University of Economics and Business
Global Conference on Services and Retail Management
2020
International Atlantic Economic Society Virtual Conference
Chinese Economics Association (UK) Workshop for Green Finance
Western Economic Association Virtual 95th Annual Conference
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Workshop of "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Firms", Small Business Economics.
2019
Sun Yat-sen University
Zhejiang University
Young Economist Society, Guangzhou University
University of International Business and Economics
BNU-HKBU United International College
Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics
2018
The Asia Pacific Trade Seminars at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
2017
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chu Hai College of Higher Education
The Asia Pacific Trade Seminars at Foreign Trade University
2016
Fudan University