Positions

Research Areas research areas

Overview

  • Zhaozhao He is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of New Hampshire Paul College of Business and Economics. Her research areas include corporate innovation strategies and incentives, corporate financial policy, labor mobility and product market interactions.

    Zhaozhao has presented her research at prestigious conferences such as the Western Finance Association (WFA) annual meetings, where she received a Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research. She was also invited for presentation at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis discussing current developments and issues in community banking.

    Her work on innovation has been published in academic journals across finance, economics and real estate fields including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and Review of Industrial Organization. Her research has received numerous awards in the profession such as the McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award at the Southwestern Finance Association, Best Paper Award in Empirical Finance at the Southern Finance Association, Best Doctoral Student Paper Awards at Southwestern Finance Association and Southern Finance Association, and best paper by a young scholar in the annual issues of Review of Industrial Organization. She is the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award at Paul College of UNH.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2023 New kids on the block: The effect of Generation X directors on corporate performanceJournal of Empirical Finance.  71:66-87. 2023
    2022 On the Relation between Innovation and Housing Prices – A Metro Level Analysis of the US MarketJournal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.  65:622-648. 2022
    2022 The Exploratory Mindset and Corporate InnovationJournal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.  57:127-169. 2022
    2018 Money held for moving stars: Talent competition and corporate cash holdingsJournal of Corporate Finance.  51:210-234. 2018
    2016 The cost of innovation: R&D and high cash holdings in U.S. firmsJournal of Corporate Finance.  41:280-303. 2016
    2015 Rivalry, Market Structure and Innovation: The Case of Mobile BankingReview of Industrial Organization.  47:219-242. 2015

    Teaching Activities

  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2022
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  • Intro to Financial Management Taught course 2022
  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2021
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  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2018
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  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2016
  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2016
  • Education And Training

  • B.S. Finance&Financial Mgmt Serv's, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
  • M.B.A. Business Admin.&Managemt, University of Central Arkansas
  • Ph.D. Finance, University of Kansas
  • Full Name

  • Zhaozhao He