Dr Xiaofei Xing

The Department of Finance
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance
Programme Director, MSc Investments

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 6011
Email: x.xing@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Business School
University House
116 Edgbaston Park Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TY

Xiaofei Xing joined the University of Birmingham in April 2017 as a Lecturer in Finance. He holds a PhD in Finance from Durham University. His research interests lie in corporate finance and behavioural corporate finance, specialising in mergers and acquisitions.

Qualifications

PhD in Finance, Durham University
MA in Management, Durham University
BEng in Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology

Biography

Xiaofei Xing joined the University of Birmingham in April 2017 as a Lecturer in Finance. He holds a PhD in Finance from Durham University. His research interests lie mainly in corporate finance and behavioural corporate finance, specialising in mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the University of Birmingham, he was a Lecturer in Finance at Coventry University. Prior to starting his academic career, he gained many years’ work experience in different industries: specifically, he has one year’s experience working as a management consultant and four years’ experience working as a telecommunications engineer.

Teaching

Current Modules:

MSc Private Equity and Venture Finance
BSc Econometrics

Past Modules:

MSc Empirical Topics in Accounting and Finance
MSc Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance
BSc Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance
BSc Managerial Finance

Postgraduate supervision

Xiaofei is interested in supervising postgraduate research in the areas of:

Corporate Finance
Asset Pricing
Financial Technology

Research

Xiaofei’s research interests mainly lie in corporate finance and behavioural corporate finance. His current research covers the following topics:

Mergers and Acquisitions
Shareholder Activism
Investment Banking
Hedge Funds
Mutual Funds
Financial Technology
Corporate Governance
Corporate Innovation

Publications

Journal articles:

Guo, J., Paudyal, K., Utham, V., Xing, X., 2020. Investors’ Activism and the Gains from Takeover Deals. The European Journal of Finance 26, 64-83.

Guo, J., Li, Y., Wang, C., Xing, X., 2020. The Role of Investment Bankers in M&As: New Evidence on Acquirers’ Financial Conditions. Journal of Banking & Finance 119, 105298.

Black, E.L., Doukas, A.J., Xing, X., Guo, J., 2015. Gains to Chinese Bidder Firms: Domestic vs. Foreign Acquisitions. European Financial Management 21, 905-935.

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