Professor Department of Finance
Dr. Zhaojun Yang is an associate professor for finance of the Department of Finance in the Southern University of Science and Technology, an appointment he has held since April 2016. He has been awarded the title of Pengcheng Scholar, of High-Level Talent in Shenzhen, and of High-Level Talent in Nanshan District of Shenzhen. Prior to the current position, he was a full Professor at Hunan University since 2002. He has published 190 papers in many leading journals including Journal of Risk and Insurance, JEDC, and Journal of Corporate Finance. He is the PI of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Program, the design of asset securitization financing mode for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises based on blockchain technology. The research grant is 2.52 million RMB. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of International Money and Finance.
Personal Profile
Dr. Zhaojun Yang is an associate professor for finance of the Department of Finance at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), an appointment he has held since April 2016. Prior to this, he was a full professor since 2002 at Hunan University (listed in 42 world-class universities, Project 985 and 211 universities in China). He visited the University of Leeds from July 2005 to July 2006, Columbia Business School at Columbia University from September to October 2010 and from February to August 2014, and the university of Macau from October to November 2015. He is a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and a member of the editorial board of Cogent Economics and Finance (2021--), of Finance (in Chinese), and of the Journal of International Money and Finance (2024--). His research focuses on finance theory and financial engineering including optimal portfolio choice, capital asset pricing, pricing of derivative securities, credit risk, loan guarantees, financial contracting, security design, financing for high-tech industries, machine learning for finance.
He is currently the Principal Investigator of a Key Program supported by the NSFC with the Chinese government grant being 2.52 million RMB. This is the first key program supported by the management science department of the NSFC and acquired by the universities located in Shenzhen city. He has published more than 190 peer-reviewed papers in economics, finance, management and mathematics journals, including Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Corporate Finance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, European Financial Management, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, European Journal of Operational Research, International Review of Financial Analysis, Annals of Economics and Finance, Journal of Credit Risk, International Review of Finance, Economics Letters, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Finance Research Letters, Statistics and Probability Letters, Operations Research Letters among others.
My open office hours: once per week in the current semester on Thursday from 9:00am - 11:00am @ Room 511 at the building of SUSTech business school, where anyone can come and talk to me in person.
Research
Finance Theory, Financial Engineering, Corporate Finance, Funding for High-Tech Businesses, Financial Contracting Theory, Security Design, Asset Securitization, Machine Learning with Financial Applications.
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