Zhanbing Xiao
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, 2017-
Sauder School of Business
The University of British Columbia
Email: Zhanbing.Xiao@Sauder.ubc.ca
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Twitter: @zhanbingxiao
HA 884E, 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z2
Welcome! I will be on the 2022/2023 finance job market.
My research interests are climate finance, ESG, big data, and financial institutions.
Working Papers
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Labor Exposure to Climate Change and Capital Deepening (Job market paper, draft available upon request)
Highlight: Climate change accelerates automation in occupations exposed to rising temperatures.
FMA 2022 Semifinalist for Best Paper in Corporate Finance
CIRF 2022 PhD Research Excellence Award
Presentations: AFA 2023, AEA Poster Session 2023, 35th Australian Finance and Banking Conference, FMA 2022, FMA Doctoral Student Consortium 2022, NFA 2022, Liechtenstein Workshop of Sustainable Finance 2022, UBC
Summer Conference Poster Session 2022, LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference (TADC) 2022, 6th Shanghai-
Edinburgh-London Green Finance Conference, China International Risk Forum (CIRF) 2022, Financial Markets and
Corporate Governance Conference 2022 (including scheduled).
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Household Environmental and Social Preferences and Consumption, with Xin Zheng and Yuxiang Zheng
Highlight: E&S-conscious households reduce consuming goods and services produced by firms violating E&S principles.
Highlight: Information from the corporate loan market improves banks' screening and monitoring efficiency in the
mortgage market.
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Agree to Disagree: Within-Syndicate Conflicts and Covenant Design, with Yongqiang Chu and Luca X. Lin
Highlight: Heterogeneities in lenders' relative equity-to-loan positions in a loan syndicate affect covenant designs.
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Smart Beta, "Smarter" Flows, with Jie Cao, Jason Hsu, Linjia Song and Xintong Zhan
Journal of Financial Markets, Revise & Resubmit
Selected Work-in-Progress