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Xinyao (Joseph) Zhou
PhD

Assistant Professor

Finance

Faculty of Business and Information Technology

Contact information

North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5

905.721.8668 ext. 5393

xinyao.zhou@ontariotechu.ca

Research topics

  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Investor Attention
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Social Interaction

Areas of expertise

  • Finance

Background

Xinyao (Joseph) Zhou's research interest includes empirical asset pricing, financial econometrics, and international finance. His main research interests revolve around empirical asset pricing, focusing on explaining return anomalies in financial markets. Specifically, he investigates how certain factors impact financial markets, such as investor attention, social interaction, media news announcements, and macroeconomic news announcements. Prior to joining academia, Xinyao Zhou works as a Management Trainee and Financial Specialist at Unilever (China).

Education

  • PhD in Finance Schulich School of Business, York University
  • Master of Science in Management - Finance Goodman School of Business
  • Bachelor of Business Administration Harbin Institution of Technology

Courses taught

Business Applications of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies; Finance II

Research and expertise

“Does Social Interaction Spread Fear among Institutional Investors? Evidence from COVID-19” With Shiu-Yik Au, and Ming Dong, Management Science, Forthcoming.

“The Dynamic Effect of Macroeconomic News on the Euro/US Dollar Exchange Rate,” with Walid Ben Omrane, and Robert Welch, Journal of Forecasting, vol. 39-1, 2020, pp. 84-103.

“Time-varying Effects of Macroeconomic News on the Euro-Dollar returns,” with Walid Ben Omrane, Tanseli Savaser, and Robert Welch, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 50, 2019, pp. 1-20.

“Macroeconomic News and Exchange Rate Volatility: Evidence of Unstable Effect,” with Walid Ben Omrane, and Robert Welch, Handbook of Global Financial Markets, Editors: Boubaker, S. and Nguyen, D., World Scientific, 2018.

“Exchange Rate Reaction to Trade Balance News,” with Walid Ben Omrane and Tanseli Savaser, Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade, Editors: Rivera-Batiz, F.L. and Erbil, C., World Scientific, 2018.

  • SSHRC Partner Engagement Grant (PEG) 2022-2023
    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR $24,156
  • SSHRC Internal Explore Grant 2022-2023
    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR $6,527
  • SSHRC Internal Exchange Grant 2022-2023
    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR $2,000
  • SSHRC Insights Grant (IG) 2022-2026
    CO-INVESTIGATOR $125,861”