Danielle Xu, Ph.D

Professor & Mozilo Chair of Business Administration

Dr. Xu teaches Principles of Finance and Investments at both undergraduate and MBA levels. In the summer, she offers courses in International Finance and Real Estate Investments, as well as Study Abroad program in China. Her research interests include...

Dr. Danielle Xu

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Education & Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., University of Arizona

M.S., University of Arizona

B.A., Jilin University

Courses Taught

BFIN 422: Investment Analysis

BFIN 320: Principles of Finance

BFIN 327 International Finance

MBUS 609: Real Estate Investments

MBUS 660: Investments

MBUS 664: Derivatives


Dr. Xu teaches Principles of Finance and Investments at both undergraduate and MBA levels. In the summer, she offers courses in International Finance and Real Estate Investments, as well as Study Abroad program in China. Her research interests include empirical asset pricing, mutual fund and hedge fund performance, executive compensation, and corporate practices that influence the behavior of financial analysts and investors. Her publications appear on Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Quantitative Analysis, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, among others. In addition, she serves on the board of Spokane Sister City Association and as president of Jilin Society.

Selected Publications

Dissecting the Idiosyncratic Volatility Anomaly, with Linda H. Chen, George J. Jiang and Tong Yao, 2020, Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol 59, 2020, 193-209 
 
Cashflow or Return Predictability at Long Horizons? The Case of Earnings Yield, with Paulo Maio, 2020, Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol 59, 2020, 172-192 

The Incremental Effect of Satisfaction on Stock Price, With Adam Bozman and Carl Bozman, 2020, Journal of Applied Business and Economics, forthcoming 

Corporate Disclosure, Analyst Forecast Dispersion, and Stock Returns, with Ashiq Ali, Mark Liu and Tong Yao, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol 42, 2016, 57-78. 
 
The Accounting Treatment of Goodwill, Idiosyncratic Risk and Market Pricing, With Marinilka B. Kimbro, 2016, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol 31, Issue 3, 2016,365-387.  

Creating a High Dividend Stock Strategy While Exploiting the Low Beta Anomaly, with Richard Cloutier, 2016, International Journal of Revenue Management, Vol. 8, Nos. 3/4, 2015, 324-342.

Shareholders Have a Say on Executive Compensation: Evidence from Say-On-Pay in the United States, With Marinilka B. Kimbro, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 35, 2016, pp. 19-42

Institutional Investors and Foreign Exchange Risk, with Timo Korkeamaki, 2015, Quarterly Journal of Finance, Vol.5, Issue No. 3.

The Forbes 400 and the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge , with Kent Hickman, Mark Shrader and Daniel Lawson, ACRN Oxford Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives (ISSN: 2305-7394), the Special Issue: Entrepreneurship Perspectives 4-1, 2015, 82-101

What drives the stock market growth? A case of an emerging economy, with Syed Mujahid Hussain, Timo Korkeamäki, and Ashfaque Hasan Khan, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 51-1, 2014, 209-223.

Flow Sensitivities under Different Market Conditions: Evidence from Hedge Funds, with Julia Chou and Dongmin Ke , International Journal of Banking and Finance 10-1, 2013, 1-32 (Leading Article)

Sell-side analysts and gender: A comparison of performance, behavior, and career outcomes, with Xi Li, Rodney Sullivan, and Guodong Gao, Financial Analysts Journal 69, March/April 2013.

Measuring Abnormal Bond Performance, with Hendrik Bessembinder, Kathy Kahle and William F. Maxwell, Review of Financial Studies 22, 2009, 4219-4258

The Information Content of Idiosyncratic Volatilities, with George Jiang and Tong Yao, Journal of Financial Quantitative Analysis 44, 2009, 1–28 (Leading Article)

Investor and Management Behavior of Socially Responsible Mutual Funds, with Kent Hickman and Mark Shrader, Journal of the Academy of Finance, 2009

A book chapter of IPO/SEO in Chinese, with Xiaoyun Yu, Series on the Frontiers of Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the book Volume of Finance, published by China Renmin University Press, Beijing, China, 2010.

Working Papers

Goodwill Hunting: Accounting Information, Analysts’ Forecasts & Risk, with Marinilka B. Kimbro, 2017

Dissecting the Idiosyncratic Volatility Anomaly, with Linda H. Chen, George J. Jiang and Tong Yao, 2017

Cashflow or Return Predictability at Long Horizons? The Case of Earnings Yield, with Paulo Maio, 2016 (Under Review)

The Consensus-Beating Game, with Mark Liu and Tong Yao, 2010

On Economies of Scale and Persistent Performance in Corporate-Bond Mutual Funds, with Roberto C. Gutierrez, William F. Maxwell, 2010