Assistant Professor
Accounting & Finance Department
Room 664 Drake Centre
181 Freedman Crescent
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry Campus)
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5V4
T: 204-474-8349
yu.xia@umanitoba.ca
Yu Xia
Biography
Dr. Yu Xia is an assistant professor at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba. He graduated from McGill University (Montreal, QC) in 2022 with a Ph.D. in Finance and previously obtained a master's degree in Economics from Duke University (Durham, NC). He received his bachelor's degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Wuhan University (Wuhan, China). His current research interests are in asset pricing, financial institutions, and machine learning. His research has been presented at several academic conferences including Northern Finance Association (NFA).
Research Interests
- Asset pricing
- Financial institutions
- Machine learning
Teaching Interests
- Empirical asset pricing
- Investments
- Fixed income securities
- Derivatives
- Data analytics
Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a shared framework to address urgent global challenges, from poverty reduction to environmental sustainability. This scholar’s research advances knowledge and contributes to impact in the following SDG(s):
