Dr Elizabeth Zhu
Senior Lecturer in Finance
School of Business
+61 7 334 68001
Room 350, Colin Clark Building, St. Lucia Campus
Researcher biography
Dr Elizabeth Yushu Zhu is a Senior Lecturer in UQ Business School She obtained her PhD from Australian National University in 2010. Elizabeth's research investigates empirical finance topics in corporate finance & governance, entrepreneurial finance (including crowdfunding), and banking. Her publications have appeared in various high-rated academic journals such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Abacus, Accounting & Finance, Australian Journal of Management, China Economic Review, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. She has supervised PhD students who are engaged in various research in the field of finance, including asset pricing, corporate finance, climate finance, among others.
Book Chapter
Avkiran, Necmi Kemal and Zhu, Yushu (Elizabeth) (2016). Pitching DEA against SFA in the context of Chinese domestic versus foreign banks. Handbook of operations analytics using data envelopment analysis. (pp. 113-143) edited by Shiuh-Nan Hwang, Hsuan-Shih Lee and Joe Zhu. New York, NY, United States: Springer Science+Business Media. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7705-2_5
Journal Articles
Fang, Hongxing, Chen, Linghong, Xiong, Jiacai and Zhu, Yushu (2024). Social Trust and Entrepreneurship: Insights from China's Social Credit System. Finance Research Letters, 62 105118, 105118. doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.105118
Xiong, Jiacai, Yang, Zelin and Zhu, Yushu (2024). Does Information Infrastructure Curb Corporate R&D Manipulation? Evidence from China. Economics Letters, 235 111562, 111562. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111562
Zheng, Jiayi and Zhu, Yushu (2023). Algorithmic trading and block ownership initiation: an information perspective. The British Accounting Review, 55 (4) 101146, 101146. doi: 10.1016/j.bar.2022.101146
Deng, Kebin, Ding, Zhong, Liao, Xiaojie and Zhu, Yushu (2021). Staged subsidies and corporate investments: evidence from Chinese listed firms. Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 68 101620, 101620. doi: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2021.101620
Zheng, Jiayi and Zhu, Yushu (2021). Chair–CEO trust and firm performance. Australian Journal of Management, 47 (1), 1-36. doi: 10.1177/0312896220981109
Li, Yaoqin , Xu, Xixiong , Zhu, Yushu and Haq, Mamiza (2021). CEO decision horizon and corporate R&D investments: an explanation based on managerial myopia and risk aversion . Accounting and Finance, 61 (4), 5141-5175. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12752
Deng, Kebin, Zhu, Yushu, Smith, Tom and McCrystal, Alan (2020). Tax and leverage: evidence from China. China Economic Review, 62 101479, 101479. doi: 10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101479
Linnenluecke, Martina K., Smith, Tom, Shen, Yun, Zhu, Yushu and Liang, Zini (2020). What does the CAPM say about operating leverage?. Abacus, 56 (2), 288-291. doi: 10.1111/abac.12198
Chen, Hang, Zhu, Yushu and Chang, Liang (2019). Short-selling constraints and corporate payout policy. Accounting and Finance, 59 (4), 2273-2305. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12314
Deng, Kevin, Zeng, Haijian and Zhu, Yushu (2019). Political connection, market frictions and financial constraints: evidence from China. Accounting and Finance, 59 (4), 2377-2414. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12301
Cai, Cynthia Weiyi, Gippel, Jennifer, Zhu, Yushu and Singh, Abhay Kumar (2019). The power of crowds: grand challenges in the Asia-Pacific region. Australian Journal of Management, 44 (4), 031289621987197-570. doi: 10.1177/0312896219871979
Linnenluecke, Martina K., Chen, Xiaoyan, Ling, Xin, Smith, Tom and Zhu, Yushu (2017). Research in finance: a review of influential publications and a research agenda. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 43, 188-199. doi: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2017.04.005
Zhou, Qing, Tan, Kelvin Jui Keng, Faff, Robert and Zhu, Yushu (2016). Deviation from target capital structure, cost of equity and speed of adjustment. Journal of Corporate Finance, 39, 99-120. doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2016.06.002
Zhu, Yushu (2016). Call it good, bad or no news? The valuation effect of debt issues. Accounting and Finance, 57 (4), 1203-1229. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12205
Linnenluecke, Martina K., Chen, Xiaoyan, Ling, Xin, Smith, Tom and Zhu, Yushu (2016). Emerging trends in Asia-Pacific finance research: a review of recent influential publications and a research agenda. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 36 (2), 66-76. doi: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2015.12.002
Avkiran, Necmi K., Zhu, Yushu, Tripe, David W. L. and Walsh, Kathleen (2015). Can foreign banks compete in China?. Accounting and Finance, 57 (4), 961-980. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12188
Gippel, Jennifer, Smith, Tom and Zhu, Yushu (2015). Endogeneity in accounting and finance research: natural experiments as a state-of-the-art solution. Abacus, 51 (2), 143-168. doi: 10.1111/abac.12048
Zhu, Yushu and Gippel, Jennifer (2015). Informed trading on debt covenant violations: The long and short of it. Accounting and Finance, 57 (1), 289-315. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12126
Deng, Kebin, Ding, Zhong, Zhu, Yushu and Zhou, Qing (2015). Investment-cash flow sensitivity measures investment thirst, but not financial constraint. Accounting and Finance, 57 (1), 165-197. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12133
Zhu, Yushu (2012). Erratum to Capital structure: The case of firms issuing debt (Australian Journal of Management, (2012), 37, 2 (283-295), 10.1177/0312896211429159). Australian Journal of Management, 37 (3), 543-543. doi: 10.1177/0312896212463296
Zhu, Yushu (2012). Capital structure: the case of firms issuing debt. Australian Journal of Management, 37 (2), 283-295. doi: 10.1177/0312896211429159
Zhu, Yushu (2012). Determinants of long-term debt issuing decisions: An alternative approach. Australian Journal of Management, 38 (2), 429-439. doi: 10.1177/0312896212461640