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School of Business and Management

Dr Chunling Xia

Chunling

Senior Lecturer in Finance, Programme Director for MSc International Financial Management

Email: c.xia@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3906
Room Number: Room 3.07, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End Campus
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/drchunlingxia/
Office Hours: Mondays at 10:00 -12:00 (Semester A for BUS149/149F) Tuesdays at 10:00 -12:00 (Semester A for BUSM072)

Profile

Roles:

Biography:

Dr. Chunling Xia is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Queen Mary University of London. She graduated from Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, with a BSc degree in Economics. She completed her MSc in Finance at Lancaster Management School and holds a PhD in Finance degree at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

Her research interests are mainly in the area of empirical corporate finance, especially mergers and acquisitions and insider trading. In particular, her recent research explores the reasons of M&A deal initiation, managers’ active participation, insiders’ trades in the target and acquiring firms, corporate payout policy, investor attention, and Chief Financial Officer.

She has published her papers in world-leading finance journals, including the Journal of Financial Analysis and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, British Journal of Management, European Financial Management, and International Review of Financial Analysis. She also presents her research papers every year in various academic venues. She has been invited as the referee for world-leading finance journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, European Journal of Finance, International Business Review, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Journal of Multinational Financial Management and Review of Behavioural Finance.

Before joining the Queen Mary University of London, she has experience in teaching finance courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Warwick Business School. She has passed the CFA level I in 2010.

CV:

Chunling Xia CV [PDF 163KB]

Website: 

sites.google.com/site/drchunlingxia/

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • BUS149 and BUS149F: Foundations of Finance 

Postgraduate

  • BUSM072: Financial Markets and Institutions


Chunling is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research

Research Interests:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions 
  • Insider Trading 
  • Corporate Governance 
  • Executive Compensation 
  • Corporate Payout Policy 

Dr Xia’s past research explores why target firms actively sell themselves and analyses managers’ active participation in the deal negotiation process, and how deal characteristics affect insiders’ trades in target firms before the takeover announcement date. Further, her research investigates the interdependence between corporate payout and investment policies, investor attention and early announcements in mergers and acquisitions, and the benefits of Corporate Financial Officers serving on the board of acquiring firms in mergers and acquisitions. Currently, she focuses on industry tournament incentives and deal initiation in mergers and acquisitions. She is also interested in insiders’ trades in acquiring firms and help to shed light on the size and distribution of synergies in informal selling mechanism versus formal auctions. 

Centre and Group Membership:

 

Publications

Published Journal Articles

 

Working Papers 

  • Chen, Z., Fidrmuc, J., Lei, Z., and Xia, C., 2023. Unraveling acquirer insiders’ trading behavior in the M&A spotlight. – Semifinalist for one of six best paper awards at the 2020 FMA Virtual Conference. 
  • Muradoglu, G., Peng, N., Qin, H., and Xia, C., 2022. Industry tournament incentives and deal initiation in M&As.
  • Fidrmuc, J.P. and Xia, C., 2021. Asset complementarity and optimality of one-to-one negotiations when selling firms. 

 

Work in Progress 

  • Muradoglu, G., Peng, N., Qin, H., and Xia, C., 2022. CEO short-horizon incentives and early announcements in takeovers
  • Muradoglu, G., Peng, N., and Xia, C., 2020. The effect of target CEO network on acquirer stock performance.
  • Fidrmuc, J.P. and Xia, C., 2019. Target insiders as risk arbitrageurs. 

Supervision

Current doctoral students:

Co-Supervisor

Zankai Wang (co-supervision with Zhe Li)

Zixuan Zhu (co-supervision with Zhe Li)

2nd Supervisor

Soumyadeep Sinharay'Essays on Financial Risk Management'.

Previous doctoral students

Huai Qin, (co-supervision with Gulnur Muradoglu and Ni Peng).

Public Engagement

  • Member of the European Finance Association
  • Member of the Financial Management Association
  • Member of the European Financial Management Association
  • External Examiner For MSc International Financial Management, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey at 2018-2022.
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