Zhou Ren

News:

September 18, 2025: I will present my job market paper at the Doctoral Workshop of the 31st Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (DGF) in Hagen, Germany.
September 19–21, 2025: I will present my job market paper at the Northern Finance Association (NFA) 2025 meeting in Calgary, Canada.

Hi, I’m Zhou Ren.

I will be on the 2025-2026 academic job market. Download my CV here.

I am currently visiting Kellogg School of Management.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Finance at the Vienna Graduate School of Finance. Before coming to Vienna, I earned an M.Sc. in Economics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and completed the Advanced Studies Program at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

My research spans macro-finance and international finance, combining theory with empirical analysis. Recently, I am particularly interested in how macroeconomic shocks affect bank operations and corporate finance behaviour, and in the role that real and financial frictions play in this transmission. Much of my current work relies on micro-level panel data. Download my research statement here.

Contact: zhou.ren@vgsf.ac.at

Research Interest:

Macro-Finance
International Finance
Firm Dynamics
Empirical Macroeconomics and Banking using Panel Data

Research Visits:

Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, Spring 2024
Kellogg School of Management from, Northwestern University, 2025-2026

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