

XIAO, Zhanbing
Assistant Professor of Finance, 2025 -
City University of Hong Kong
Former Affiliation: Harvard University
Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
Ph.D. in Finance, University of British Columbia
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Email: zhanbing.xiao@cityu.edu.hk
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Research Interests:
Primary: Climate Finance; Labor & Finance
Secondary: Financial Intermediation
References:
Environmental Economics/Climate Finance:
Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
Harvard University Center for the Environment
Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program
UBC Center for Climate and Business Solutions
Stanford Environmental Change and Human Outcomes
Working Papers
Adaptation to Climate-induced Regulatory Risk Through Technological Progress, with Hernan Ortiz-Molina and Xin Zheng
Selected Presentations: Harvard University, AEA 2025, UNC-Duke Corporate Finance Conference 2025, China International Conference in Finance (CICF) 2025, Finance Down Under Conference 2025, CAPANA Annual Conference 2025, Hawaii Accounting Research Conference 2025, FMA 2024, 20th Annual Haskell and White Conference
How Does Climate Change Reshape U.S. Entrepreneurship? A Labor Channel
Selected Presentations: Harvard University, NBER Place-Based Policies and Entrepreneurship 2024, 4th Spring Finance Workshop
Labor Exposure to Climate Risk, Productivity Loss, and Capital Deepening
Revision requested, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Selected Presentations: Harvard University, SFS Cavalcade North America 2024, MFA 2024, Commodity and Energy Markets Association (CEMA) Annual Conference 2024 at Boston University, Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF) Conference 2024 (cancelled), AFA 2023, FIRS 2023, AEA Poster Session 2023, Stanford Preparing for a Changing Climate Conference 2023, 15th Annual Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) Ph.D. Workshop, NFA 2022, FMA 2022, FMA Doctoral Student Consortium 2022, LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference (TADC) 2022, UBC Summer Conference 2022, 35th Australian Finance and Banking Conference, New Zealand Finance Meeting 2022, Liechtenstein Workshop of Sustainable Finance 2022, 6th Shanghai-Edinburgh-London Green Finance Conference, China International Risk Forum (CIRF), Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference 2022
with Xin Zheng and Yuxiang Zheng
Revision requested, Review of Accounting Studies
Selected Presentations: Northern Finance Association Meetings (NFA) 2023, the 3rd Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility at UMass Boston, Hawaii Accounting Research Conference 2024
Credit Lines and Liquidity Demand and Supply, with John Chu
Selected Presentations: FMA European Conference 2022, 34th Australian Finance and Banking Conference
Publications
The Industry Expertise Channel of Mortgage Lending, with Yongqiang Chu and Yuxiang Zheng
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 2026
Agree to Disagree: Lender Equity Holdings, Within-syndicate Conflicts, and Covenant Design, with Yongqiang Chu and Luca Lin
Journal of Financial Intermediation, January 2024
Other Works
Smart Beta, "Smarter" Flows, with Jie Cao, Jason Hsu, Linjia Song, and Xintong Zhan, Journal of Empirical Finance, March 2025
Interest Rate Risk, Prepayment Risk and Banks’ Securitization of Mortgages, Resting