ZHOU Chunsheng

Zhou received his PhD in economics (finance) in 1995 from Princeton University. He previously held a professorship at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University.

He has worked for the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the US Federal Reserve.

His research has been published in journals including the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies.

Areas of Expertise

Capital Operations, Chinese Economy, Exchange Markets, Financial Derivative Tools, Financial Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions

Education:

• 1995 Ph.D. in Economics (Finance), Princeton University.
• 1993 M.A. in Economics, Princeton University.
• 1988 M.Sc. Applied Mathematics, Peking University (China).

Professional Appointments:

• Jan 2007-Present, Professor of Finance, Academic Director of EMBA, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China.
• July 2001-December 2006, Professor of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China.
• January 2002-November 2002, EMBA and EDP Director, Assistant Dean, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
• November 2002-December 2006, EDP Director, Assistant Dean, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
• July 2000-July 2001, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Hong Kong
• July 1997-2001, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of California, Riverside.
• April 1995-July 1997, Economist, Trading Risk Analysis Section, The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC.
• August 1998, Visiting Professor of Business, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• 2004-2006, Honorary Professor, School of Business, University of Hong Kong
• 2003-present, Adjunct Professor, City University of Hong Kong

Achievements

Princeton University Honorific Fellowship (one of the highest honors awarded to Princeton graduate students), Princeton University, 1994-1995. Global Finance Association, Best Paper Award, 2001. National Excellent Young Researcher Grant, China, 2003.

Selected Publications

• “The Illusionary Nature of Momentum Profits”, with Lesmond and Schill,Journal of Financial Economics, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, February, 2004.
• “Credit Derivatives in Banking: Useful Tools for Managing Risk?, with Gregory Duffee, University of California at Berkeley, Journal of Monetary Economics, August 2001.
• “An Analysis of Default Correlation and Multiple Defaults”, Review of Financial Studies, May 2001.
• “Time to Build and Investment,Review of Economics and Statistics, 82, 273-282, 2000.
• “Informational Asymmetry and Market Imperfections: Another Solution to the Equity Premium Puzzle”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 34, pp 445-464, 1999.

Books and Book Chapters

• “Wealth Forever: The Analytics of Stock Markets”, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2003, with Sarkis J. Khoury, et al.
• “Country Risk: Existing Models and New Horizons”, with Sarkis J. Khoury, Victor Murinde & Andy Mullineux, editors.