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Dr Yifan Zhou

Lecturer in Finance

School/Department: Business, School of

Email: yz500@leicester.ac.uk

Profile

I am an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Finance at the University of Leicester. I hold a PhD degree in Finance. My research agenda is related to Fintech, AI in finance, financial intermediations, corporate governance and corporate finance. I have presented my research at prestigious conferences such as the Bank of England Conference and the FMA Annual Meeting. My working paper on the board of directors was awarded the Best Paper Prize (corporate governance) at the 4th Young Finance Scholar (YFS) conference. In 2019, My publication was awarded the British Accounting and Finance Association Prize and the British Accounting Review Best Paper in Finance. I was working as the principal investigator (PI) for a research project that was successfully awarded the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. My research has featured in international leading journals such as the British Accounting Review, Â鶹APP Review of Financial Analysis, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Financial Services Research.

Research

ESEARCH INTERESTS

Fintech, AI and Corporate Finance, Banking, Family Firms.

Supervision

PhD supervision:  

Applicants who have research interests in Fintech, AI and finance,  corporate governance, banking and entrepreneurship are welcome to apply.

Teaching

Postgraduate 1. Corporate Finance Module leader. 2. Foundations of Financial Analysis and Investment (Distant learning) Module leader. Dissertation supervision 1. Dissertation (Undergraduate) 2. Dissertation (Postgraduate) 

Awards

  • RESEARCH GRANTS

  1. Principal investigator, British Academy Research Grants.

  2. Co-investigator, The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (SK2020053), funded by the China Ministry of Education.

 

  • ACADEMIC HONORS/AWARDS

  1. 2019 British Accounting and Finance Association Prize.

  2. 2019 Best Finance Paper at the British Accounting Review.

  3. Best Paper Award at the 4th Young Finance Scholar Conference, University of Sussex, UK.

Conferences

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 

  1. 2024 FMA Annual Meeting, 10/2024, Dallas, USA.
  2. (Invited session) The 2023 Annual Society for Economic Measurement (SEM) Conference, 07/2023, Milan, Italy.
  3. (Invited session) The 2023 Regional Studies Association’s Annual Conference, 06/2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  4. IFABS 2022 Naples Conference, Program committee member, 09/2022, Italy.
  5. 6th Young Finance Scholar Conference, 06/2019, Sussex, United Kingdom.
  6. IFABS 2018 Chile Conference, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
  7. Symposium in Â鶹APP Finance, 06/2018, Poznan, Poland*.
  8. 8th Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) Conference, 06/2018, Rome, Italy*.
  9. 1st Â鶹APP Conference on Banking and Finance, 05/2018, Nanjing, China.
  10. 4th Young Finance Scholar Conference (Best Paper Award), 06/2017, Sussex, United Kingdom.
  11. Bank of England Conference “Financial Services Indices, Liquidity and Economic Activity” 05/2017, Bank of England, London, United Kingdom.
  12. 4th Paris Financial Management Conference, 12/2016, Paris, France.
  13. Portsmouth-Fordham Conference on Banking & Finance-Journal Special Issues, 09/2016, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  14. British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Annual Conference of the Northern Area Group, 09/2016, Loughborough, United Kingdom.  (* by co-author)

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