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Dr. Gaiyan Zhang is a finance board scholar and a professor of finance at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is currently the Chair of the Department of Finance and Legal Studies.

She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine (with a two-year Exchange Program at UCLA), an M.S. degree from Fudan University, China, and a Bachelor’s degree from Nankai University, China. Her areas of research and teaching include empirical corporate finance, credit risk and credit derivatives, financial institutions, financial distress, and international finance. She has over thirty publications including leading finance and IB journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Financial Stability. Dr. Zhang has received research awards and grants from the FDIC Center for Financial Research, the Natural Science Fund of China, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Fudan University, among others. Her papers were presented at high-profile conferences in the U.S. and abroad including NBER, FDIC, American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, New York Fed, OCC, European Central Bank, Bank of Canada, CDIC, and Bank of Finland.

She served as a referee for over forty journals and grants in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Zhang has won the Anheuser-Busch Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Douglas E. Durand Award for Research Excellence at UMSL.

Contact Information

Phone: 314-516-6269

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Education/Academic qualification

Finance and Financial Management Services, PhD, University of California, Irvine

20002005

Finance, MA, Fudan University

… → 1999

Finance, BA, Nankai University

… → 1996

Research Interests

  • Finance
  • CRSP Compustat
  • Credit Default Swaps
  • Exploratory Factor Analysis
  • Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis
  • SAS
  • STATA

Disciplines

  • Business Administration, Management, and Operations
  • Finance