Positions

Overview

  • Zhaozhao He is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of New Hampshire Paul College of Business. Her current research areas are in empirical corporate finance with specializations in innovation strategies and incentives, corporate cash 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 by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on current developments and issues in community banking.

    Her work on innovation has been published in leading 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 academia such as the McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award and the Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Award at the 2014 Southwestern Finance Association, the Best Doctoral Student Paper Award at the 2015 Southern Finance Association annual meetings, and the best paper by a young scholar in the 2015 issues of Review of Industrial Organization. She is the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award at UNH Paul College.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2022 The Exploratory Mindset and Corporate InnovationJournal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.  57:127-169. 2022
    2021 On the Relation between Innovation and Housing Prices: A Metro Level Analysis of the Us MarketJournal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.  forthcoming. 2021
    2020 Cohabitation before marriage: do prior alliances enhance post-merger performance?Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.  54:1315-1349. 2020
    2020 Too much liquidity? Seemingly excess cash for innovative firmsFinancial Review.  55:121-144. 2020
    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
  • Intro to Financial Management Taught course 2022
  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2021
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  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2020
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  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2019
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  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2018
  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2018
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  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2017
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  • Financial Institutions Taught course 2017
  • 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