
Olivia
Gu
Professor Gu has a PhD degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign. Her research interests include asset pricing, return predictability, innovation, ESG, corporate governance, machine learning, and gender discrimination. She has published a number of articles in top academic journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Journal of Accounting Research. Her solo-authored paper, "Product Market Competition, R&D Investment and Stock Returns", was published in the Journal of Financial Economics, was awarded the Trefftzs Award, the SAC Capital for the PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research at Western Finance Association meetings, and the Research Output Prize by HKU. She also serves in the editorial board of Review of Financial Economics and in the committee of various finance conferences. She taught investments and risk management in HKU before.
- Product Market Competition, R&D Investment and Stock Returns, Journal of Financial Economics, 2016.
- Inflexibility and Stock Returns, with D. Hackbarth and T. Johnson, Review of Financial Studies, 2018.
- Corporate Governance and Equity Prices: Does Transparency Matter?, with D. Hackbarth, Review of Finance, 2013.
- How Does Human Capital Matter: Evidence from Venture Capital, with R. Huang, Y. Mao, and X. Tian. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020.
- Stock Liquidity and Corporate Diversification: Evidence from China's Split Share Structure Reform, with Y. Wang, W. Yao, and Y. Zhang, Journal of Empirical Finance, 2018.
- Price Rigidities and the Value of Public Information, with J. Xie, Journal of Accounting Research, 2024.