Breadcrumb Home Professors Professors Liang XU Associate Professor liang.xu@skema.edu Empirical Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Disclosure, Analyse textuelle Download resume Image Academy Globalization Research center Finance & Accounting Insights on Risk and Regulation Location Suzhou Discipline Finance Career Publications Previous Next Education 2017 PhD in Finance, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, France 2013 Master, ESSEC Business School, France 2011 Master, Xiamen University, China 2008 Bachelor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Experience Full-time academic positions Since 2024 Associate Professor, SKEMA Business School, China 2021 - 2023 Assistant Professor, SKEMA Business School, China 2017 - 2020 Assistant Professor, Nanjing University, China Peer-reviewed journal articles WANG, S., WANG, X. and XU, L. (2023). Debt maturity structure and the quality of risk disclosures. Journal of Corporate Finance, 83, pp. 102503. BU, M., XU, L. and TANG, R. (2023). MNEs’ transfer of socially irresponsible practices: A replication with new extensions. Journal of World Business, 58(2), pp. 101384. LIU, C., XU, L., YANG, H. and ZHANG, W. (2023). Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts. Journal of Corporate Finance, 78, pp. 102316. TANG, T., XU, L., YAN, X. and YANG, H. (2022). Simultaneous debt - equity holdings and corporate tax avoidance. Journal of Corporate Finance, 72, pp. 102154. MA, Y. and XU, L. (2021). Major government customers and stock price crash risk. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 40(6), pp. 106900. XU, L. (2021). Stock price informativeness and managerial inefficiency. International Review of Economics and Finance, 74, pp. 348-364.