Dr Bin Xu
- Position: Associate Professor in Finance
- Email: B.Xu@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 7801
- Website: SSRN
Profile
Dr Bin Xu is an Associate Professor of Finance at Leeds University Business School who joined the School in 2017. Prior to that, he worked as a Lecturer in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast. He received his PhD in Finance from Loughborough University. He has been a visiting researcher at the Norwegian School of Economics and Warwick Business School, and has academic exchange experience at the University of British Columbia.
His primary research areas are corporate finance, corporate governance and sustainable finance. He is particularly interested in how corporate decisions and outcomes can be shaped by various stakeholders and capital market participants (e.g., customers, employees, competitors, analysts, short sellers) and managerial incentives. His research appears in Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Banking and Finance, and has been featured in Harvard Business Review. He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Finance and Economics (ABS 3*).
He is the Programme Director of MSc Financial Risk Management and has the experience of teaching a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD courses (e.g., Corporate Finance, International Business Finance, Financial Reporting and Analysis, and Empirical Methods for Accounting and Finance Research). He is the recipient of QUB Rising Star Teaching Award in 2017.
Responsibilities
- Director, MSc Financial Risk Management
- Deputy Director, Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance (CASIF)
- Faculty Representative on the University's PhD Progression and Examinations Group
Research groups and institutes
- International Banking Institute
- Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance