Associate Professor in Finance
- Ph.D. in Finance, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China (2018)
- B.A. in Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2012)
- Associate Professor, University of Macau (2024-present)
- Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bath (2023-present)
- Associate Professor, Renmin University of China (2022-2024)
- Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China (2020-2022)
- Assistant Professor, University of Bath (2018-2020)
- Distinguished Yong Scholar, Renmin University of China (2020-2024)
- Winner of the Best Paper Award in Investment, FMA Annual Meeting (2022)
- Winner of the Best Paper Award, 9th China Investment Annual Conference (2021)
- Winner of the Best Paper Award, The 28th SFM conference (2020)
- Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, The University of Hong Kong (2018)
- Semifinalist for the Best Paper Award, FMA Annual Meeting (2022)
- Semifinalist for the Best Paper Award, FMA Annual Meeting (2021)
- Semifinalist for the Best Paper Award, International Young Finance Scholars’ Conference (2021)
- Undergraduate Courses at Renmin University of China
- Financial Engineering (2022-2024)
- Strategic Financial Decisions (2022)
- Graduate Courses at Renmin University of China
- Derivatives (2021-2024)
- Empirical Analysis in Finance (2021-2024)
- Empirical Asset Pricing (2020-2022)
- Financial Econometrics (2020)
- Undergraduate Courses at University of Bath
- Strategic Financial Decisions (2018-2020)
- Financial Market – Derivatives (2018-2020)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project ID: 72303226; principal investigator), 2024-2026
- The Special Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project ID: 72341027; co-investigator), 2024
- The Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project ID: 72233003; co-investigator), 2023-2027
- Empirical Asset Pricing
- Institutional Investors
- Behavioral Finance
- Shiyang Huang, Wenxi Jiang, Xiaoxi Liu, and Xin Liu (2024), Does Liquidity Management Induce Fragility in Treasury Prices: Evidence from Bond Mutual Funds, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming (ABS4*, FT50, UTD24)
- Shiyang Huang, Xin Liu, Dong Lou, Christopher Polk (2024), The Booms and Busts of Beta Arbitrage, Management Science, Volume 70, Issue 8, 5367-5385 (ABS4*, FT50, UTD24)
- Tse-Chun Lin and Xin Liu (2018), Skewness, Individual Investor Preference, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, Review of Finance, Volume 22, Issue 5, 1841–1876 (ABS4, FT50)
- Dingwei Gu, Xin Liu, Hanwen Sun, and Huainan Zhao (2021), Strategic Insider Trading: Disguising Order Flows to Escape Trading Competition, Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 67, 101891 (ABS4)
- Xin Liu, Xiaoran Ni, Zhigang Qiu, Wang Xiang, and Kailun Zhang (2024), Like a Moth to a Flame: Do Stock Market Bubbles Exacerbate Credit Risks of Peer-to-Peer Lending?, European Financial Management, forthcoming (ABS3)
- Xiaolin Huo, Xin Liu, Zhigang Qiu, and Sijie Yang (2023), Unpredicted Costly Dividends and Temporary Short Squeezes, European Financial Management, Volume 29, Issue 5, 1553-1575 (ABS3)
- Xiaolin Huo, Xin Liu, and Weinan Zheng (2023), The Term Structure of Mutual Fund Herding, European Financial Management, Volume 29, Issue 3, 901-929 (ABS3)
- Xin Liu, Zhigang Qiu, Luyao Shen, and Weinan Zheng (2023), Coreversal: The Booms and Busts of Arbitrage Activities in China, Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 71, 51-65 (ABS3)
- Yihan Li, Xin Liu, and Vesa Pursiainen (2022), Analyst Incentives and Stock Return Synchronicity: Evidence from MiFID II, Financial Analysts Journal, Volume 78, Issue 4, 77-97 (ABS3)
- Xin Liu (2021), Diversification in Lottery-Like Features and Portfolio Pricing Discounts: Evidence from Closed-end Funds, Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 62, 1-11 (ABS3)
- Xin Liu, Chengxi Yin, and Weinan Zheng (2021), The Invisible Burden, Journal of Financial Markets, Volume 52, 100561 (ABS3)
- Shiyang Huang, Xin Liu, and Chengxi Yin (2019), Investor Target Prices, Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 54, 39-57 (ABS3)