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Julia (Hui) Zhu
PhD

Professor

Finance
Faculty of Business and Information Technology

Dr. Hui Zhu's research interests include fixed-income securities, initial public offerings (IPOs), corporate Innovation and social responsibility, and international finance.

Languages
English, Chinese

Contact expert

hui.zhu@ontariotechu.ca
905.721.8668 ext. 5535

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Areas of expertise


  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
  • Master of Arts (MA) University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
  • Bachelor of Science North China Electric Power University, China

Dr. Zhu’s research has been presented at:

  • Financial Management Association annual conference, US, 2024
  • European Financial Management Association annual conference, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Southwestern Finance Association annual conference, US, 2022, 2023,2024
  • Financial Management & Accounting Research Conference, Cyprus, 2022
  • 3rd Canadian Sustainable Finance Network annual conference, Canada, 2022
  • Southern Finance Association annual conference, US, 2022
  • Southwestern Finance Association annual conference, US, 2022
  • Southern Finance Association annual conference, US, 2020
  • Multinational Finance Society annual conference, Israel, 2019
  • Multinational Finance Society annual conference, Hungary, 2018
  • Midwest Finance Association annual conference, US, 2018
  • International Conference on Innovation Studies in Tsinghua University, China, 2017
  • The 8th International Research Meeting in Business and Management, France, 2017
  • Midwest Financial Association Annual Conference, U.S., 2014, 2017
  • The 7th European Business Research Conference, France, 2016
  • Northern Financial Association Annual Conference, Canada, 2016
  • Paris Financial Management Conference, France, 2016
  • London Conference for the Journal of International Business Studies Special Issue on the Role of Financial and Legal Institutions in International Corporate Governance, U.K., 2016
  • Financial Management Association Annual Conference, U.S., 2012, 2014, 2015
  • 8th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Canada, 2015
  • Multinational Finance Society Annual Conference, Italy, 2011; Turkey, 2013; Greece, 2015
  • Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Annual Conference, Canada, 2015
  • Eastern Financial Association Annual Conference, U.S., 2012, 2014, 2015
  • Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, Canada, 2013
  • Academy of International Business Annual Conference, Turkey, 2013
  • European Financial Management Association Annual Conference, U.K., 2013
  • Southern Financial Association Annual Conference, U.S., 2011, 2012
  • Asian Finance Association Annual Conference, Taiwan, 2012
  • Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference, Canada, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • Edwards Symposium on Financial Markets & Institutions, Canada, 2011
  • International Association for Business and Society Annual Conference, Canada, 2010
  • Far East and South Asia Meeting of Econometric Society Conference, Japan, 2009
  • Workshop on Data Revision in Macroeconomics Forecasting and Policy, Canada, 2008
  • Midwest Econometrics Group Annual Conference, U.S., 2008
  • International Policy Forum on Greenhouse Gas Management, Canada, 2005
  • Is Corporate Social Responsibility A Matter of Trust? A Cross-country Investigation (with Eva Wagner), International Review of Financial Analysis, 93, (May 2024): 103127.
  • How Does the JOBS Act Affect the Rule 144A Market? (with Kelly Cai), Journal of Financial Research, March 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12392.
  • The Impact of Firm Life Cycle on Bond Ratings and Yields (with Kelly Cai and Heiwai Lee), Journal of Financial Research, February 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12390
  • Investor Heterogeneity and Negative Skewness in Stock Returns: Evidence from Institutional Investors (with Ramzi Benkraiem, Stéphane Goutte, Samir Saadi and Steven Zhu), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 81, (2022): 101690.
  • Narjess Boubakri, Imed Chkir and Samir Saadi and Hui Zhu, 2021, Does National Culture affect Corporate Innovation? International Evidence, Journal of Corporate Finance 66, 101847
  • Chen Liu, Lynnette Purda and Hui Zhu, 2021, Institutional Influence on Syndicate Structure and Cross-boarder Leveraged Buyouts, 50(1), Financial Management, 169-202
  • Cai, Kelly and Hui Zhu, Customer-Supplier Relationships and the Cost of Debt, 2020, Journal of Banking and Finance 110, 105686
  • Chourou, Lamia., Samir Saadi, and Hui Zhu, 2018, “How Does Culture Influence IPO Underpricing?” Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 51, 318-341.
  • Baker, H. Kent, Yang Ni, Samir Saadi, and Hui Zhu, 2019, “Competitive Earnings News and Post-earnings Announcement Drift”, International Review of Financial Analysis 63, 331-343.
  • Zhu, Hui and Steven Zhu, 2017, “Corporate Innovation and Economic Freedom: Cross-country Comparisons”, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 63, 50-65.
  • Cai, Kelly and Hui Zhu, 2016, “The Market Reaction to Yankee and Rule 144ABond Offerings”, Journal of Multinational Financial Management 34, 1-17.  (Lead Article)
  • Cai, Kelly and Hui Zhu, 2015, “Cultural Distance and Foreign IPO Underpricing Variations”, Journal of Multinational Financial Management 29, 99-114.
  • Zhu, Hui and Kelly Cai, 2014, “Cultural Distance and Bond Pricing: Evidence in the Yankee and Rule 144a Bond Markets”, Journal of Financial Research 37, 357-384.
  • Zhu, Hui, 2014, “Implications of Limited Investor Attention to Customer-Supplier Information Transfers”, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 54(3), 405-416.
  • Basher, Syed Abul, Salem Nechi, and Hui Zhu, 2014, “Dependence Patterns across Gulf Arab Stock Markets: A Copula Approach”, Journal of Multinational Financial Management 25, 30-50.
  • Li, Fuchun and Hui Zhu, 2014, “Testing Financial Contagion Based on a Nonparametric Measure of the Cross-Market Correlation”, Review of Financial Economics 23(3), 141-147.
  • Yang, Minhua and Hui Zhu. 2014, “How Does Market Value Earnings Smoothing under Uncertainty”, Applied Financial Economics 24(20), 1335-1345.
  • Gregory, Allan W. and Hui Zhu, 2014, “Testing the Value of Lead Information in Forecasting Monthly Changes in Employment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics”, Applied Financial Economics 24(7), 505-514.
  • Prescott, Ryan, G. Cornelis van Kooten, and Hui Zhu, 2007, “The Potential for Wind Energy Meeting Electricity Needs on Vancouver Island”, Energy & Environment 18(6), 723-746.
  • John, Kose, Samir Saadi, and Hui Zhu. 2014. Liquidity Risk, in H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck, eds., Investment Risk Management (pp. 141-154), Oxford University Press.
  • 2024-2026. Principal Investigator. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – Insight Development Grant ($58,346)
  • 2023-2024. Building EDI Knowledge in Research grant, Ontario Tech University ($4,500)
  • 2023-2024. Visiting Scholar Grant, Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria (Euro2646.96)
  • 2023-2024. SSHRC Small Grants Program 2023 – Explore Stream, Ontario Tech University ($7,000)
  • 2022-2023. FBIT Research Excellent Award – Senior Researcher Category, Ontario Tech University.
  • 2022-2023. Scholarship recipient, the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program, Global Affairs Canada.
  • 2019-2020. FBIT Research Excellent Award – Early Stage Researcher Category, Ontario Tech University.
  • 2018-2019. Scholarship recipient, the Canada-China Scholars Exchange Program, Global Affairs Canada.
  • 2018-2020. Principal Investigator. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – Insight Development Grant ($54,182)
  • Won Best Paper Awards for the 7th European Business Research Conference in Rome, Italy (with Bin Chang)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Small Partnership Grant ($13,912)
  • Faculty of Business and Information Technology Summer Research Support ($1,000)
  • SSHRC Small Research Grant ($4,796)
  • Research Policy Grant, Cape Breton University ($16,000)