Academic Position

2019 – Present 

Associate Professor of Finance, School of Business, Renmin University of China 

2014 – 2019 

Assistant Professor of Finance, School of Business, Renmin University of China

Education

2009 – 2014  Imperial College London   Ph.D. in Finance

2008 – 2009  Imperial College London  MSc in Finance

2004 – 2008  Renmin University of China  B.A. in Economics

Please visit my personal website for my latest research: www.linglingzheng.com

Asset Pricing, Anomalies, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds and Short Sellers

Financial Management, Undergraduate

Investments, Undergraduate

Asset Pricing Theory, Ph.D.

Selected Acedemic Articles

Fundamental Analysis and the Cross-section of Stock Returns: A Data-mining Approach, with Sterling Yan, Review of Financial Studies, Volume 30, Issue 4, (2017), 1382–1423

2. Shorting Flows, Public Disclosure, and Market Efficiency, with Xue Wang and Sterling Yan, Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 135, Issue 1, (2020), 191-212

3. Financial Industry Affiliations and Hedge Fund Performance, with Sterling Yan, forthcoming in Management Science

4. Should Mutual Fund Investors Time Volatility?, with Feifei Wang and Sterling Yan, forthcoming in Financial Analysts Journal

5. Time-Series and Cross-Sectional Momentum in Anomaly Returns, with Feifei Wang and Sterling Yan, forthcoming in European Financial Management

6. Do Sophisticated Investors Follow Fundamental Analysis Strategies? Evidence from Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds, with Feifei Wang and Sterling Yan, forthcoming in the Review of Accounting Studies

7. Do Fund Managers Time Momentum? Evidence from Mutual Fund and Hedge Fund Returns, with Feifei Wang, forthcoming in the European Financial Management

Presentations at Academic Meetings

Renmin University of China, 2013

Imperial College London, 2014 University of New South Wales, 2014* Louisiana State University, 2015* Renmin University of China, 2015* Southern Illinois University, 2015* University of Central Florida, 2015* City University of Hong Kong, 2015*

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, 2015*

Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, 2016* Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2016*

Financial Management Association European Meeting, 2016*

Lancaster Conference on Financial Econometrics and Empirical Asset Pricing, 2016* China International Conference in Finance, 2016

European Finance Association Annual Meetings, 2016 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2016*

Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, 2016 Tsinghua PBC School of Finance, 2016*

Renmin University of China, 2016

9th Annual Paris Conference on Hedge Funds, 2017* FMA Latin America Conference, 2017*

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2017* Acadian Asset Management, 2017*

Point 72 Asset Management, 2017* Renmin University of China, 2017* University of Auckland, 2017* Wellington Finance Summit, 2017* CQAsia Conference, 2017

National Cheng-Chi University, 2017* National Chi-Nan University, 2017* Renmin University of China, 2018 FMA Annual Meetings, 2018*

Federal Reserve Board, 2018* Lehigh University, 2018*

China International Conference in Finance, 2019 University of Dayton, 2019*

Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, 2019 Central University of Finance and Economics, 2019 Renmin University of China, 2019

Renmin University of China, 2019*

FMA Annual Meetings, 2020*

Renmin University of China, 2020

City University of Hong Kong, 2021

Hong Kong Baptist University, 2021

Fudan University, 2021

Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2021

Central University of Finance and Economics, 2021

Chinese Finance Annual Meeting, 2021*

Monash University, 2022

Hunan University, 2022

Nankai University, 2022

Wuhan University, 2022

Shandong University, 2022

Competitive Research Grants

Research Grant for Outstanding Young Scholars, The National Natural Science Foundation of China (2022-2025)

Research Grant, The National Natural Science Foundation of China (2018-2021) 

Research Grant, Renmin University of China, 2014-2016

Honors and Awards

Distinguished Research Award for Young Scholars, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2020

Semi-finalist for best paper award in investments, FMA Annual Meetings, 2020 Distinguished Research Award, School of Business, Renmin University, 2019

Semi-finalist for best paper award in investments, FMA Annual Meetings, 2018

CQAsia Academic Competition, 2nd Prize, 2017

Best paper award in Investments, 2017, FMA Latin America Conference