YI ZHOU
Professor Yi Zhou received her doctorate in finance and concurrent master degrees in statistics and economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. She also received a master degree in astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in space physics from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Professor Zhou's research and teaching interests are in the areas of empirical asset pricing: derivatives, volatility, credit risk, risk management and energy finance. Her papers have been selected to be presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Business, the Chinese International Conference in Finance, the Chicago Quantitative Alliance, the Multinational Finance Society, Financial Management Association and European Finance Association Meetings. She is a member of the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association and Financial Management Association.
Recently, one of Professor Zhou's projects on credit default swaps and variance risk premium won both the 2009 research award of Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Risk Management Research Program and the 2009 research award of the Centre for Hedge Fund Research (CHFR) at the Risk Management Laboratory, Imperial College London.
Professor Zhou is the recipient of UC Regents Fellowships and the UC Dissertation Fellowship from the University of California at Los Angeles and University of California at Berkeley for her dissertation research titled, Leverage, Asset Pricing and Its Implications.
Address:
OU Price College of Business
Division of Finance
307 W. Brooks, suite 250
Norman, Oklahoma 73019
Contact:
(405) 325-1135
yi.zhou-2@ou.edu