Dr Yang Hu
Senior Lecturer in Finance and Economics
Qualifications: PhD (University of Waikato) MSc with Distinction (University of Canterbury) BSc (University of Canterbury)
Personal Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=51XkGBkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
About Yang
Dr Yang Hu is currently a Senior Lecturer in Finance and Economics at the University of Waikato's Management School. Dr Hu joined the School of Accounting, Finance, and Economics in June 2019 after completing his PhD degree.
His research interests lie primarily in the fields of financial bubbles, energy finance, and cryptocurrencies.
He has published in a wide range of internationally recognised journals, including Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Energy Economics, European Journal of Finance, International Review of Economics & Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, among others.
Research Award:
WMS Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher 2020
Papers Taught
Research Interests
- Applied Econometrics
- Empirical Finance
- Cryptocurrency
- Fintech
- Asset Pricing
Publications
- Hu Y, Oxley L (2017) Are there bubbles in exchange rates? Some evidence
from G10 and emerging market economies. Economic Modelling, 64, 419-
442. - Hu Y, Oxley L (2018) Do 18th century `bubbles' survive the scrutiny of 21st
century time series econometrics?. Economics Letters, 162, 131-134. - Hu Y, Scarrott C, (2018) evmix: An R package for extreme value mixture
modelling, threshold estimation and boundary corrected kernel density estimation. Journal of Statistical Software, 84, 1-27. (SCI Q1, IF: 22.737) - Hu Y, Oxley L (2018) Bubbles in US regional house prices: Evidence from
house price-income ratios at the State level. Applied Economics, 50, 3196-
3229. - Hu Y, Oxley L (2018) Bubble contagion: Evidence from Japan's asset price
bubble of the 1980-90s. Journal of the Japanese and International
Economies, 50, 89-95. - Hu Y, Valera H G, Oxley L (2019) Market efficiency of top market-cap cryptocurrencies: further evidence from panel framework. Finance Research Letters, 31, 138-145.
Recent Publications
Corbet, S., Hou, Y., Hu, Y., & Oxley, L. (2022). The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hedging functionality of Chinese financial markets. Research in International Business and Finance, 59. doi:10.1016/j.ribaf.2021.101510
Collings, D., Corbet, S., Hou, Y., Hu, Y., Larkin, C., & Oxley, L. (2022). The effects of negative reputational contagion on international airlines: The case of the Boeing 737-MAX disasters. International Review of Financial Analysis, 80, 25 pages. doi:10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102048
Corbet, S., Hou, Y., Hu, Y., Larkin, C., Lucey, B., & Oxley, L. (2021). Cryptocurrency liquidity and volatility interrelationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finance Research Letters, online, 102137. doi:10.1016/j.frl.2021.102137
Corbet, S., Hou, Y., Hu, Y., Oxley, L., & Xu, D. (2021). Pandemic-related financial market volatility spillovers: Evidence from the Chinese COVID-19 epicentre. International Review of Economics and Finance, 71, 55-81. doi:10.1016/j.iref.2020.06.022
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Keywords
Economics; Finance; Statistics
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: MSB.3.26
Phone: +64 7 838 4676