題    目：Doing Empirical Research – A tutorial 

報告人：徐葉曉 (Yexiao Xu)，美國德州大學(xué)達拉斯分校教授

時    間：2016年6月7日（星期二）下午2:30-4:00

地    點：bwin必贏唯一官網(wǎng)313會議室

Professor Yexiao Xu received his Ph.D degree in financial economics from Princeton

University in 1996. Currently he is an associate professor in the School of

Management, the University of Texas at Dallas. He has won the 2001 Smith-Breeden prize for a study on idiosyncratic risks--one

of the most prestigious awards in Finance. His published and working papers have generated over 4,000 citations. Professor Xu's 

research interest covers stock market volatility, the pricing role of idiosyncratic risk, factor models, predictability, mutual fund 

performance, analyst research, tax and closed-end fund discounts, and adaptive estimators. Currently he is working on a number of topics including, asset pricing test, implied 

cost of capital, predictability of idiosyncratic risk, partial factor structure, econometric models for leverage, short sale interest, 

and many related issues in the Chinese and the Japanese equity markets. Professor Xu has taught Ph.D level theoretical and 

empirical asset pricing courses, financial econometrics, as well as MBA financial management and investment courses.