REVIEW OF FINANCE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Finance at Lindner College
Prof. Chen Xue is Associate Professor of Finance at Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati. Prof. Xue's main research interests include empirical asset pricing, asset management, and real estate finance. He has published in Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. His work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and The Economist and has won the second prize at the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Annual Academic Competition in both 2015 and 2017. In 2019, his paper titled "Which Factors?" won the Spängler IQAM Prize for the best investment paper published at the Review of Finance. In 2018, he received the Lindner Research Excellence Emerging Scholar Award. As of November 2019, Prof. Xue's research has been cited over 1,500 times on Google Scholar. In 2016, he received the Daniel J. Westerbeck Junior Faculty Graduate Teaching Award. Prof. Xue earned a PhD in Finance from the University of Michigan in 2012. E-mail: xuecx@ucmail.uc.edu.
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- Ric Dillon Endowed Professor
Prof. Kewei Hou is the Ric Dillon Endowed Professor in Investments, Professor of Finance, at Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. Prof. Hou's primary research interest is in the area of empirical asset pricing with a specialization in the predictability of asset returns. He has published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Finance, and Management Science. Prof. Hou is an Editor of Journal of Empirical Finance, Associate Editor of Journal of Banking and Finance and Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Faculty Research Fellow of the Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics and the China Academy of Financial Research, and the recipient of research grants from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q-Group), INQUIRE-Europe, INQUIRE-UK, BSI GAMMA Foundation, Chicago Quantitative Alliance, and Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. Professor Hou joined Ohio State in 2001. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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- John W. Galbreath Chair, Professor of Finance
Prof. Lu Zhang is the John W. Galbreath Chair, Professor of Finance, at Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, as well as Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research and Associate Editor for Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He is Founding President of Macro Finance Society, which is an international academic society devoted to advancing and disseminating high-quality research at the intersection of financial economics and macroeconomics. Before joining Ohio State in 2010, he taught at Stephen M. Ross School of Business at University of Michigan and William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at University of Rochester. Prof. Zhang's research focuses on asset pricing, in connection with macroeconomics, corporate finance, labor economics, and capital markets research in accounting. He has published extensively at prestigious academic journals. One chapter of his doctoral thesis "The value premium" won the Smith-Breeden Award for Best Paper for 2005 from American Financial Association and Journal of Finance. His article on "Which factors?" won the Spängler IQAM Prize for the best investment paper published at Review of Finance from European Finance Association. His academic research has been frequently featured in prominent media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Shanghai Financial News, and The Economist. In 2015, Prof. Zhang was voted the Outstanding Working Professional MBA Elective Faculty Award recipient at Fisher College of Business. E-mail: zhanglu@fisher.osu.edu.
Lu Zhang on the evolution of asset pricing models and his first principles approach to improve them, validea.com, November 22, 2021