
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Background
Dr. Huacheng Zhang has been an Associate Professor of Finance at the Accounting and Finance Division of the University of Edinburgh Business School since August 2023. Before that, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor of Finance at the Nottingham University Business School (UK) and the Institute of Financial Studies of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (China). He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Finance from the University of Arizona (USA), a Master's degree in Economics from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (USA), and an 91´óÉñ degree and a bachelor's degree in ME from Chongqing University (China).
His research interests are empirical asset pricing, institutional investment, and international finance. His papers were presented at the annual conferences of the American Finance Association (AFA), European Finance Association (EFA), SFS Cavalcade Asian-Pacific, Miami Behavioral Finance Conference, and China International Conference in Finance (CICF),Ìý and published in Management Science, Review of Asset Pricing Studies,ÌýJournal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Empirical Finance. His research findings in paper '' are adopted by financial industry practitioners().
He teaches Foundations of Econometrics (Fall, Doctorial) and Research in Corporate Finance (Spring, Master). )
Research Interests
  Empirical Asset Pricing
  Financial Institution
  International FinanceÂ
Selected Publications
   , with Jun Du, Dashan Huang, Jane Liu, Yushui Shi, and Avanidhar Subrahmayam.  Management Science, forthcoming
      Featured in (26 October 2022)
   , with Christopher Lamoureux. Review of Asset Pricing Studies (14),Ìý2024.Ìý
   , with George Jiang and Bing Liang. Management Science (68), 2022.
    , with George Jiang and Gulnara Zaynutdinov. Journal of Banking and Finance (125), 2021.
    , with Fengyu Li and Dazhi Zheng. Journal of Empirical Finance (49),2018Ìý
Selected Working Papers
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     AFA 2019 Conference; SFS Cavalcade Asian-Pacific 2017 Conference
   , with Dashan Huang, Guofu Zhou, and Yingzhi Zhu
      EFA 2020 Conference; AFA 2021 Conference
    , with Hong Liu and Guofu Zhou
    , with George Jiang and Bing Liang