CFR welcomes new member Fan Yu, Business and Economics, Macquarie University

Dr Yu is a lecturer in finance in the Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies, after recently joining the Faculty of Business and Economics.

Previously she was Assistant Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Dr Yu received her PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2013 and before that studied at Humboldt University, Berlin to gain her MA.
 
Her current research interests focus on empirical corporate finance. Other areas of interest include executive compensation, contract theory, corporate governance, capital structure, cash policy and institutional investors.

Dr Yu has a previous link with Australia, receiving the Best Corporate Finance Paper Award at the 26th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in Sydney in 2013.

We welcome Dr Yu as a member of the Centre for Financial Risk.