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
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”