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I am an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Finance at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. I hold a PhD degree in Finance. My research agenda is related to Fintech, AI in finance, financial intermediations, corporate governance and corporate finance. I have presented my research at prestigious conferences such as the Bank of England Conference and the FMA Annual Meeting. My working paper on the board of directors was awarded the Best Paper Prize (corporate governance) at the 4th Young Finance Scholar (YFS) conference. In 2019, My publication was awarded the British Accounting and Finance Association Prize and the British Accounting Review Best Paper in Finance. I was working as the principal investigator (PI) for a research project that was successfully awarded the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. My research has featured in international leading journals such as the British Accounting Review, International Review of Financial Analysis, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Financial Services Research.

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Research Interests 

Corporate Finance, Famliy firms, Banking and Fintech, AI in Finance.

Selected publications 

Ferdous, L.T., Atawnah, N., Liu, J. and Zhou, Y., 2025. Chief financial officer power and conditional accounting conservatism. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, pp.1-46.

Ferdous, L.T., Atawnah, N., Yeboah, R. and Zhou, Y., 2024. Firm-level climate risk and accounting conservatism: International evidence. International Review of Financial Analysis, 95, p.103511.

Zhou, X., Li, X., Zhou, Y. and Kara, A., 2024. Deposit Insurance and Bank Liquidity Creation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China. Journal of Financial Services Research, pp.1-37.

Kara, A., Zhou, H. and Zhou, Y., 2021. Achieving the United Nations' sustainable development goals through financial inclusion: A systematic literature review of access to finance across the globe. International Review of Financial Analysis, p.101833.

Zhou, Y., Kara, A. and Molyneux, P., 2019. Chair-CEO generation gap and bank risk-taking. The British Accounting Review, 51(4), pp.352-372.
*Awarded the 2019 Best Finance Paper at the British Accounting Review

Deku, S.Y., Kara, A. and Zhou, Y., 2019. Securitization, bank behaviour and financial stability: A systematic review of the recent empirical literature. International Review of Financial Analysis, 61, pp.245-254.

PhD supervision:  

Applicants who have research interests in Fintech, AI and finance,  corporate governance, banking and entrepreneurship are welcome to apply.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 

1. 2024 FMA Annual Meeting, 10/2024, Dallas, USA.
2. (Invited session) The 2023 Annual Society for Economic Measurement (SEM) Conference, 07/2023, Milan, Italy.
3. (Invited session) The 2023 Regional Studies Association’s Annual Conference, 06/2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
4. IFABS 2022 Naples Conference, Program committee member, 09/2022, Italy.
5. 6th Young Finance Scholar Conference, 06/2019, Sussex, United Kingdom.
6. IFABS 2018 Chile Conference, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
7. Symposium in International Finance, 06/2018, Poznan, Poland*.
8. 8th Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) Conference, 06/2018, Rome, Italy*.
9. 1st International Conference on Banking and Finance, 05/2018, Nanjing, China.
10. 4th Young Finance Scholar Conference (Best Paper Award), 06/2017, Sussex, United Kingdom.
11. Bank of England Conference “Financial Services Indices, Liquidity and Economic Activity” 05/2017, Bank of England, London, United Kingdom.
12. 4th Paris Financial Management Conference, 12/2016, Paris, France.
13. Portsmouth-Fordham Conference on Banking & Finance-Journal Special Issues, 09/2016, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
14. British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Annual Conference of the Northern Area Group, 09/2016, Loughborough, United Kingdom.  (* by co-author)